Bhaddekaratta Sutta ("A Single Excellent Night")M. C. OwensRecorded at San Francisco Dharma CollectiveDecember 16, 2018The Bhaddekaratta Sutta, from the Majjhuma Nikaya, the middle-length discourses of the Buddha.“Let not a person revive the pastOr on the future build his hopes;For the past has been left behindAnd the future has not been reached.Instead with insight let him seeEach presently arisen state;Let him know that and be sure of it,Invincibly, unshakably.Today the effort must be made;Tomorrow Death may come. who knows?No bargain with MortalityCan keep him and his hordes away,But one who dwells thus ardently,Relentlessly, by day, by night —It is he, the Peaceful Sage has said,Who has had a single excellent night.”