SN 48.41 Jara Sutta

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SN 48.41 Jara Sutta : Old Age
I have heard that on one occasion the Lord Buddha was staying near Savatthi in the Eastern Monastery, the palace of Migara's mother. Now on that occasion the Lord Buddha, on emerging from seclusion in the late afternoon, sat warming his back in the western sun. Then Ven. Ananda went to the Lord Buddha and, on arrival, having bowed down to the Lord Buddha, massaged the Lord Buddha's limbs with his hand and said, "It's amazing, lord. It's astounding, how the Lord Buddha's complexion is no longer so clear & bright; his limbs are flabby & wrinkled; his back, bent forward; there's a discernible change in his faculties — the faculty of the eye, the faculty of the ear, the faculty of the nose, the faculty of the tongue, the faculty of the body."

"That's the way it is, Ananda. When young, one is subject to aging; when healthy, subject to illness; when alive, subject to death. The complexion is no longer so clear & bright; the limbs are flabby & wrinkled; the back, bent forward; there's a discernible change in the faculties — the faculty of the eye, the faculty of the ear, the faculty of the nose, the faculty of the tongue, the faculty of the body."

That is what the Lord Buddha said. Having said that, the One Well-gone, the Teacher, said further: I spit on you, old age — old age that makes for ugliness. The bodily image, so charming, is trampled by old age. Even those who live to a hundred are headed — all — to an end in death, which spares no one, which tramples all.