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Thag 2.15

Sabbamitta

Sabbamittattheragāthā

from: The Book of the Twos

Chapter Two

Sabbamitta

People are attached to people;
people depend on people;
people are hurt by people;
and people hurt people.

So what’s the point of people,
or those born of people?
Go, abandon these people,
who’ve hurt so many people.

Translation: German (Ayyā Sabbamittā), English (Bhikkhu Sujato). Source: SuttaCentral / Bilara (public domain, CC0).

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