Part I : Excerpts

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“Together mundanes fight for matters which are not urgent. Amid severe vice and extreme pain, they work hard but can hardly support themselves.

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"All the same for the noble, humble, rich, poor, young, and elderly, men and women, they gather thoughts, accumulate worries and move to work for their heart.

Those without land worry about land, those without property worry about property, as of spouses and children and possession, they worry the same while in the possession or otherwise;

while if one has been gained they will feel as if lacking of the other one, contemplating and longing for the simultaneous gaining of both; while something rather replete, they then will worry about the unexpected.

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"Such as flood, flame, robber, the rivalry, and debtor; that will burn down, wash away, rob, and seize away.

And with stingy heart and stubborn mind, no one could cease feeling nor to let go, until life span ends and body dismantling, still no one will be there make a company,

irrespectively if they are poor or rich, all will suffer innumerable worries and pains....

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“In the Samsaric-Suffering of love and desire, one could only be alone to incarnate and demise, be alone to arrive and depart, in self to experience pains and joys;

no one could be there to substitute. Fluctuating and transformation of virtues and vices projected as results of the chasing-after, leading to a different path of reincarnation that no one knows when there will be the next time to ever meet again.

As such, what you are waiting for, instead of cultivating diligently while you are strong and healthy? “

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(Excerpt from The Sukhāvatī-vyūhaḥ-sūtra, The Longevity-scripture)