"Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things."
"What Daniel spoke abt impermance, 成住坏空 (formation, dwelling, decay and dissolution ) of the body...even sore throat is very important...u must learn to deeply treasure this truth and allow dispassion to liberate us. This is most important. We think that we understand but we don't...not even a percent...lol
Dispassion is the cause of unbinding and cessation."
- Thusness
"[
A monk said:] "'Dhamma-teacher, Dhamma-teacher' they say, Lord."
"If, monk, anyone teaches a doctrine of disenchantment
[1] with decay-and-death, of dispassion
[2] [
leading to] its cessation, that suffices for him to be called a monk who teaches Dhamma.
[3]"If anyone has trained himself in this disenchantment with decay-and-death, in dispassion
[4] [
leading to] its cessation, that suffices for him to be called a monk who is trained in what is in conformity with Dhamma.
[5]"If anyone, through disenchantment with decay-and-death, through dispassion [
leading to] its cessation, is liberated from grasping, that suffices for him to be called one who has attained Nibbaana in this life."
[6]" - Dhammakathiko Sutta
"1. Bhikkhu Sutta. A monk who knows decay and death, birth, becoming, grasping, craving, etc., their arising, their cessation and the way thereto such a monk stands knocking at the door of Deathlessness." S.ii.43.
"..."The blood you have shed when, arrested as thieves plundering villages, you had your heads cut off... when, arrested as highway thieves, you had your heads cut off... when, arrested as adulterers, you had your heads cut off: Long has this been greater than the water in the four great oceans.
"Why is that? From an inconceivable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating & wandering on. Long have you thus experienced stress, experienced pain, experienced loss, swelling the cemeteries — enough to become disenchanted with all fabrications, enough to become dispassionate, enough to be released."
That is what the Blessed One said. Gratified, the monks delighted in the Blessed One's words. And while this explanation was being given, the minds of the thirty monks from Pava — through lack of clinging — were released from fermentations." - Timsa Sutta
"...disenchantment has knowledge & vision of things as they actually are present as its prerequisite, dispassion has disenchantment as its prerequisite, release has dispassion as its prerequisite, knowledge of ending has release as its prerequisite.." - Upanisa Sutta