235. Like  a withered leaf are you now; the messengers of death wait on you. On the threshold of decay you stand. Provision too there is none for you.

汝今已似枯樵葉，閻魔使者近身邊。汝已立位死門前，旅途汝亦無資糧。

236. Make    an    island    unto      yourself; strive quickly; become wise; purged of stain and passionless, you shall enter the heavenly stage of the Ariyas.

汝宜自造安全洲；迅速精勤為智者；拂除塵垢無煩惱，得達諸天之聖境。

237. Your  life  has  come to an end now; to the presence of death you are setting out. No halting place is there for you by the way. Provision too there is none for you.

汝今壽命行已終；汝已移步近閻魔。道中既無停息處，旅途汝亦無資糧。

238. Make  an  island  unto yourself. Strive without delay; fast; become wise. Purged of stain and passionless, you will not come again to birth and old age.

汝宜自造安全洲；迅速精勤為智者；拂除塵垢無煩惱，不復重來生與老。

239. By degrees a wise man. Little by little, from time to time, should remove his own impurities, as a smith removes（the dross）of silver.

剎那剎那間，智者分分除，漸拂自垢穢，如冶工鍛金。