Maraṇenapi taṃ pahīyati

yaṃ puriso mamidanti maññati.

Etampi viditvā paṇḍito,

na mamattāya

nametha māmako.

Listen

At death a person abandons

what one construes as mine.

Realizing this, the wise

shouldn't incline

to be devoted to mine.

Sutta Nipāta 4.812

View Pāli on Tipitaka.org

Translated from Pāli by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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