Damien Keown

A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Chanting Book, Wat Pa Tam Wua Forest Monastery

(Now let us recite the passage for Frequent Recollection.)

I am of the nature to age or decay, I have not gone beyond ageing or decaying.

I am of the nature to sicken, I have not gone beyond sickness.

I am of the nature to die, I have not gone beyond death.

All that is mine, beloved and pleasing will become otherwise, will become separated from me.

Thus, they should be frequently recollected by us.

Chanting Book, Wat Pa Tam Wua Forest Monastery.

The final tone of useless is BRUTAL! ssssss

SANKHARA are body-mind; all material and mental things. They are impermanent. Once arisen, they cease; possessed, they are lost.

SANKHARA are body-mind; all material and mental things. They are dukkha, hard to endure; because once born, they age, fall ill, and die.

All things, those that are SANKHARA and that which is not, are not self, are not soul, should not be taken as I, as mine, as my self - my soul.

Our lives have death as their completion.