生老病死偈
已生多年，
早忘生苦，
不了生死，
来生再苦。
人生无常，
未必可老，
生后即老，
越老越苦。
生老如病，
再加身心，
各有多病，
即痛又苦。
贪生怕死，
不断轮回，
即是大病，
须法疗苦。
Verses On Birth, Ageing, Sickness & Death
Already born for many years,
soon forgotten is birth’s suffering,
not liberating from the cycle of births and deaths,
in the next life again suffering.
With human life’s impermanence,
not necessarily able to age much,
after birth is ageing,
the more aged with more suffering.
Birth and ageing are like sicknesses,
to this adding, of body and mind,
each having many sicknesses,
with pain and suffering.
Attached to life and fearful of death,
not severing, continually reborn,
this is the major sickness,
that needs the Dharma to cure its suffering.
