Here by Sangharakshita recounts one of the stories from the Mahaparinibbana Sutta, that of The Episode of Untimely Flowers. Reflections based around the Buddha's Parinirvana ('death'), stress the importance of impermanence.
From the lecture entitled Between Twin Sala Trees as part of the series Incidents from the Pali Canon,1983.
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