Ezekiel 7:13 · World English Bible
For the seller won’t return to that which is sold, although they are still alive; for the vision concerns the whole multitude of it. None will return. None will strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
Anicca: Impermanence The mark of everything put together. The field was already sliding away before the money changed hands, and the year that would have handed it back never arrives.
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BUDDHISM
Anicca: Impermanence The mark of everything put together. The field was already sliding away before the money changed hands, and the year that would have handed it back never arrives. Both men still drawing breath, both still standing, and the ground under the contract has shifted anyway.
Mamaṅkāra: Mine-making The habit of stamping "mine" on whatever passes through the hands. Long after the field is signed away, the seller walks its edges in his mind and counts the seasons until it comes home to him. The deed went; the claim stayed, and the claim is the part that breaks when the vision lands.
Pamāda: Heedlessness Living as though there were time in hand. Strengthening yourself in the iniquity of your life is bracing a house with rotten beams: the more weight you set on it, the faster it comes down. A wrong way of living offers footing that gives out at the moment a person leans hardest.
Kammassakatā: Ownership of one's deeds Beings are heirs of what they do. The land, the silver, and the buyer's receipt all stay behind, while the iniquity of a life is the one holding that goes with its owner. None will return, and yet the deeds come home to the doer without fail.
Saṃvega: Urgent shock The jolt that turns a person around. The vision falls on the whole multitude at once, no household spared, which is the alarm no market day sounds while the buying and selling go well. Felt early, that shock makes a person set the ledger down; felt with the end already here, it only reads the account back.
Buddhism lens
What am I still counting as mine that left a long time ago?
The more you hoard, the heavier the loss when it goes, and nothing held tightly stays. What you call yours is only passing through your hands.
Never say you have lost a thing, say you have given it back, since it was always on loan. The house, the field, the money: handed to you and handed on.
The body and its holdings are put together and come apart, while the deeds of a life travel with the one who did them. Grieving for what was never permanent mistakes the nature of it.
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