{"id":"sn4.9","title":"Lifespan (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn4.9","title":"Lifespan (1st)","units":[{"id":"sn4.9:0","sourceIds":["sn4.9:0.1","sn4.9:0.2","sn4.9:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 4.9\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nPaṭhamaāyusutta","en":"Linked Discourses 4.9\n1. Lifespan\nLifespan (1st)"}},{"id":"sn4.9:1","sourceIds":["sn4.9:1.1","sn4.9:1.2","sn4.9:1.3","sn4.9:1.4","sn4.9:1.5","sn4.9:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati veḷuvane kalandakanivāpe.\nTatra kho bhagavā bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“bhikkhavo”ti.\n“Bhadante”ti te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṁ.\nBhagavā etadavoca:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground.\nThere the Buddha addressed the mendicants,\n“Mendicants!”\n“Venerable sir,” they replied.\nThe Buddha said this:"}},{"id":"sn4.9:2","sourceIds":["sn4.9:2.1","sn4.9:2.2","sn4.9:2.3","sn4.9:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Appamidaṁ, bhikkhave, manussānaṁ āyu.\nGamanīyo samparāyo, kattabbaṁ kusalaṁ, caritabbaṁ brahmacariyaṁ.\nNatthi jātassa amaraṇaṁ.\nYo, bhikkhave, ciraṁ jīvati, so vassasataṁ appaṁ vā bhiyyo”ti.","en":"“Mendicants, the lifespan of humans is short.\nWe are headed for lives to come. So we must do what is skillful, we must practice the spiritual life.\nNo one born is immortal.\nA long life is a hundred years or a little more.”"}},{"id":"sn4.9:3","sourceIds":["sn4.9:3.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"Then Māra the Wicked went up to the Buddha and addressed him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn4.9:4","sourceIds":["sn4.9:4.1","sn4.9:4.2","sn4.9:4.3","sn4.9:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Dīghamāyu manussānaṁ,\nna naṁ hīḷe suporiso;\nCareyya khīramattova,\nnatthi maccussa āgamo”ti.","en":"“The life of humans is long!\nA true person wouldn’t scorn it.\nLive like a suckling babe,\nfor Death has not come for you.”"}},{"id":"sn4.9:5","sourceIds":["sn4.9:5.1","sn4.9:5.2","sn4.9:5.3","sn4.9:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Appamāyu manussānaṁ,\nhīḷeyya naṁ suporiso;\nCareyyādittasīsova,\nnatthi maccussa nāgamo”ti.","en":"“The life of humans is short,\nand a true person scorns it.\nThey should live as though their head was on fire,\nfor Death comes for everyone.”"}},{"id":"sn4.9:6","sourceIds":["sn4.9:6.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro …pe… tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"Then Māra … vanished right there."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn4.9/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}