Thag 2.32 - Sivaka
Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato
Source: https://suttacentral.net/thag2.32/en/sujato
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Verses of the Senior Monks 2.32
The Book of the Twos
Chapter Four
Sivaka
Houses are impermanent—
on and on, life after life.
I’ve been searching for the house-builder—
painful is birth again and again.
I’ve seen you, house-builder!
You won’t build a house again.
Your rafters are all broken,
your ridgepole is shattered.
My mind is without boundaries:
in this very life it will dissipate.