Bhaddakasutta—Bhikkhu Sujato
A mendicant who lives well and doesn’t waste time will have a good death.
There Sāriputta addressed the mendicants: “Reverends, mendicants!”
“Reverend,” they replied.
Sāriputta said this:
“A mendicant lives life so as to not have a good death.
And how do they live life so as to not have a good death?
Take a mendicant who relishes work, talk, sleep, company, closeness, and proliferation. They love these things and like to relish them.A mendicant who lives life like this does not have a good death.
This is called a mendicant who enjoys substantial reality, who hasn’t given up substantial reality to rightly make an end of suffering.
A mendicant lives life so as to have a good death.
And how do they live life so as to have a good death?
Take a mendicant who doesn’t relish work, talk, sleep, company, closeness, and proliferation. They don’t love these things or like to relish them.
A mendicant who lives life like this has a good death.
This is called a mendicant who delights in extinguishment, who has given up substantial reality to rightly make an end of suffering.
A beast who likes to proliferate,
enjoying proliferation,
fails to win extinguishment,
the supreme sanctuary from the yoke.
But one who gives up proliferation,
enjoying the state of non-proliferation,
wins extinguishment,
the supreme sanctuary from the yoke.”
Relishing is another word for craving, eagerness, delighting, excitement.
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