“By what is the world afflicted?
By what is it enveloped?
By what dart has it been wounded?
With what is it always burning?”“The world is afflicted with death,
Enveloped by old age;
Wounded by the dart of craving,
It is always burning with desire.”
sn.1.66 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)
Afflicted
- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi
- Editor: Blake Walsh