Gain/loss,
status/disgrace,
censure/praise,
pleasure/pain:
These conditions among human beings
are
inconstant,
impermanent,
subject to change.
Knowing this, mindful, the intelligent person,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming
& rebelling
are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
Knowing the dustless, sorrowless state,
he
discerns rightly,
has gone, beyond becoming,
to the Further Shore.
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