MINDFULNESS · DHAMMAPADA 277
Remembering What Matters
`All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way to purity.
Dhammapada 277 · Chapter 20, The Way · trans. F. Max Müller · Read the full text at Project Gutenberg
Reflection
The verse begins, “`All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain.” In its chapter, this image points toward a practical path of attention, ethics, and understanding. Its value is practical when it changes how you meet one choice, relationship, or difficult feeling today. Because this is a historic English translation, test the teaching in experience rather than treating its wording as a demand for belief.
Practice prompt
Where might remembering your intention change the next hour?