"Oh good man! For example, there is a man who has an enemy, who always looks for his whereabouts. Someone who is wise sees this, keeps awake and protects against it. If do not protects himself, there is the danger of being harmed. It's the same with all the bodies of beings. Be hot or cold, always nourish it with food and drink. If not thus well protected, the body will decay. Oh good man! The Brahmin, in worship to the god of fire, always offers incense and flowers, praises and worships it, makes offerings and serves him, and may well get a life of 100 years. But if he touches it, the fire will burn the hand that touched him. This fire, which was so cherished and valued with offerings, knows nothing about repay what it owes to one who has single-mindedly served it. It's the same with the bodies of all beings. Over the years, the body is served with the best of incense and flowers, necklaces, clothes, food and drink, bedding and medicines. But when it finds the causal relations that afflict it inside and out, everything at once collapses, and now it does not think of repay even a little the offerings and those clothes were given to them in days gone by."
Read More on the Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 38 - On Bodhisattva Lion's Roar 6.
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