Inner Strength - Access to Insight

people with only partial knowledge to misunderstand and to quarrel.When noble ones see in this way, they develop a sense of dispassion and don’tever want to be born in a world again—for there are all sorts of worlds. Someworlds have nothing but cold, others nothing but heat—no living beings can beborn there. Some have only sunlight; others only moonlight; still others, neithersunlight nor moonlight. This is what is meant by lokavidÒ.For this reason, once we’ve learned this, we should take it to think overcarefully. Whatever we see as worthy of credence, we should then use to trainour hearts so that the paths and their fruitions will arise within us. Don’t beheedless or complacent in anything you do, for life is like dew on the grass. Assoon as it’s touched by the light of the sun, it vanishes in no time without leavinga trace.We die with every in-and-out breath. If we’re the least bit careless, we are sureto die, for death is something that happens very easily. It’s lying in wait for us atevery moment. Some people die from sleeping too much, or eating too much, oreating too little; of being too cold, too hot, too happy, too sad. Some people diefrom pain, others die without any pain. Sometimes even when we’re sittingaround perfectly normal we can still die. See that death has you surrounded onall sides—and so be earnest in developing as much goodness as you can, both inthe area of the world and in the Dhamma.48