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“Let not a person revive the past
Or on the future build his hopes;
For the past has been left behind
And the future has not been reached.

Instead with insight let him see
Each presently arisen state;
Let him know that and be sure of it,
Invincibly, unshakeably.

Today the effort must be made;”
“Tomorrow Death may come, who knows?
No bargain with Mortality
Can keep him and his hordes away,

But one who dwells thus ardently,
Relentlessly, by day, by night
It is he, the Peaceful Sage has said,
Who has had a single excellent night.”
MN 131
Excerpt From the translation of
Bhaddekaratta Sutta
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha
Nanamoli, Bhikkhu.

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