Island🌱 simile

The Buddha urges the bhikkhus to dwell with themselves and the Dhamma as island and refuge, and to examine the origin of sorrow in regarding the five aggregates as self—showing that seeing their impermanence abandons that sorrow and brings ease.

DhammaPada verses 21-32 share the distinct path and outcomes of diligence and negligence. On seeing this clearly, the wise guard diligence like the most important wealth. One devoted to diligence burns away all fetters, is incapable of decline, and is near to Nibbāna.