A Single Day Lived with Full Awareness

A Single Day Lived with Full Awareness

“A single day lived

with full awareness in profound effort

is greater

than a hundred years lived in static lethargy.

A single day lived

with full awareness of rising and passing

is greater

than a hundred years lived unaware of rise and fall.

A single day lived

awake to the Undying State

is greater

than a hundred years unseeing and unknowing Deathlessness.

A single day lived

Awake to profound Truth

is greater

than a hundred years of life in unawareness.”

– the Buddha, Dhammapada 112-115