Bhaddekaratta Sutta ("A Single Excellent Night") 12-16-2018 - a podcast by M.C. Owens

Bhaddekaratta Sutta ("A Single Excellent Night")
M. C. Owens

Recorded at San Francisco Dharma Collective
December 16, 2018

The Bhaddekaratta Sutta, from the Majjhuma Nikaya, the middle-length discourses of the Buddha.
“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, unshakably.
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.”

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