An Outline of the Buddha’s Teachings

Bradford Hatcher:

In the forty-five years of the Buddha’s teaching many such lists of vices and virtues were enumerated, and perhaps registered with more rigidity than was intended. In the end they suggest that the simple life is rich with things to be done. In the Buddha’s last words:

Vayadhamma samkhara, appamadena samapadetha
Subject to change are all compound beings --
Save yourselves with heedfulness

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