{
  "dhp146:0.1": "Minor Collection ",
  "dhp146:0.2": "Sayings of the Dhamma 146–156 ",
  "dhp146:0.3": "11. Old Age ",
  "dhp146:0.4": "",
  "dhp146:1": "What is joy, what is laughter, ",
  "dhp146:2": "when the flames are ever burning? ",
  "dhp146:3": "Swathed in darkness, ",
  "dhp146:4": "would you not seek a light? ",
  "dhp147:0": "",
  "dhp147:1": "See this fancy puppet, ",
  "dhp147:2": "a body built of sores, ",
  "dhp147:3": "diseased, obsessed over, ",
  "dhp147:4": "in which nothing lasts at all. ",
  "dhp148:0": "",
  "dhp148:1": "This body is decrepit and frail, ",
  "dhp148:2": "a nest of disease. ",
  "dhp148:3": "This foul carcass falls apart, ",
  "dhp148:4": "for life ends in death. ",
  "dhp149:0": "",
  "dhp149:1": "These dove-grey bones ",
  "dhp149:2": "are tossed away like ",
  "dhp149:3": "dried gourds in the autumn—",
  "dhp149:4": "what joy is there in such a sight? ",
  "dhp150:0": "",
  "dhp150:1": "In this city built of bones, ",
  "dhp150:2": "plastered with flesh and blood, ",
  "dhp150:3": "old age and death are stashed away, ",
  "dhp150:4": "along with conceit and contempt. ",
  "dhp151:0": "",
  "dhp151:1": "Fancy chariots of kings wear out, ",
  "dhp151:2": "and even this body gets old. ",
  "dhp151:3": "But the truth of the good never gets old—",
  "dhp151:4": "so the good proclaim to the good. ",
  "dhp152:0": "",
  "dhp152:1": "A person of little learning ",
  "dhp152:2": "ages like an ox—",
  "dhp152:3": "their flesh grows, ",
  "dhp152:4": "but not their wisdom. ",
  "dhp153:0": "",
  "dhp153:1": "Transmigrating through countless rebirths, ",
  "dhp153:2": "I’ve journeyed without reward, ",
  "dhp153:3": "searching for the house-builder; ",
  "dhp153:4": "painful is birth again and again. ",
  "dhp154:1": "I’ve seen you, house-builder! ",
  "dhp154:2": "You won’t build a house again! ",
  "dhp154:3": "Your rafters are all broken, ",
  "dhp154:4": "your roof-peak demolished. ",
  "dhp154:5": "The mind, set on demolition, ",
  "dhp154:6": "has reached the end of cravings. ",
  "dhp155:0": "",
  "dhp155:1": "When young they spurned the spiritual path ",
  "dhp155:2": "and failed to earn any wealth. ",
  "dhp155:3": "Now they brood like old cranes ",
  "dhp155:4": "in a pond bereft of fish. ",
  "dhp156:1": "When young they spurned the spiritual path ",
  "dhp156:2": "and failed to earn any wealth. ",
  "dhp156:3": "Now they lie like spent arrows, ",
  "dhp156:4": "bemoaning over things past. ",
  "dhp156:5": ""
}