Peaceful Warrior

The 3 messengers in this life are old age, sickness and death. Though warned by the divine messengers, those people who remain heedless sorrow for a long time, having fared on to a lower realm. But those good people here who, when warned by the divine messengers, never become heedless in regard to the noble Dhamma; who, having seen the peril in clinging as the origin of birth and death, are liberated by non-clinging in the extinction of birth and death: those happy ones have attained security; they have reached nibbāna in this very life. Having overcome all enmity and peril, they have transcended all suffering.

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