Gain and loss, fame and disgrace,
praise and blame, and pleasure and pain.
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These qualities among people are impermanent,
transient, and perishable.
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A clever and mindful person knows these things,
seeing that they’re perishable.
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Desirable things don’t disturb their mind,
nor are they repelled by the undesirable.
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Both favoring and opposing
are cleared and ended, they are no more.
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Knowing the stainless, sorrowless state,
they understand rightly, going beyond rebirth.
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Lokavipatti Sutta AN 8.6
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