Sutta Nipata 5.17: Pingiyamanavapuccha

‘Iam old, feeble, colourless,’—so said the venerable Pingiya,—‘my eyes are not clear, my hearing is not good; lest I should perish a fool on the way, tell me the Dhamma, that I may know how to leave birth and decay in this world.’

‘Seeing others afflicted by the body,—O Pingiya,’ so said Bhagavat,—‘(seeing) heedless people suffer in their bodies;—therefore, O Pingiya, shalt thou be heedful, and leave the body behind, that thou mayest never come to exist again.’

Pingiya: ‘Four regions, four intermediate regions, above and below, these are the ten regions; there is nothing which has not been seen, heard, or thought by thee, and (is there) anything in the world not understood (by thee)? Tell (me) the Dhamma, that I may know how to leave birth and decay in this world.’

‘Seeing men seized with desire,—O Pingiya,’ so said Bhagavat,—‘tormented and overcome by decay,—therefore thou, O Pingiya, shalt be heedful, and leave desire behind, that thou mayest never come to exist again.’