Our time is running out (Khuddaka Nikaya)

Heraññakāni (Khuddaka Nikaya 8.133); Th 2.30. Kaṇhadinna (Khuddaka Nikaya 8.150); Ellie Askew (Facebook.com), Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly Wikipedia edit

Accayanti ahorattā

jīvitaṃ uparujjhati;

Āyu khīyati maccānaṃ,

kunnadīnaṃ va odakaṃ.

“The days and nights rush by

then life is cut short;

Human life wastes away

like water in tiny streams."

- Heraññakāni (KN 8.133)

Upāsitā sappurisā,

sutā dhammā abhiṇhaso;

Sutvāna paṭipajjissaṃ,

añjasaṃ amatogadhaṃ.

“I regularly sat close by good people

and learned the Teaching (the Dhamma).

What I learned, I practiced, the direct

route culminating in The Deathless."

- Th 2.30. Kaṇhadinna (KN 8.150)

The Khuddaka Nikāya (lit. "Minor Collection") is the last of the five nikayas, or "collections," in the Sutra Collection (Sutta Pitaka), which is one of the "Three Baskets" (Tipitaka) that compose the Pali language canon, the sacred texts of Theravada Buddhism.

This nikaya consists of 15 (Thailand), 15 (Sri Lanka, following Ven. Buddhaghosa's list), or 18 books (Burma) in different editions on various topics attributed to the Buddha and his chief nuns and monks.

The word khuddaka in the title means "small" in Pali, and Nikāya is "collection."

The equivalent collection in the Chinese and Tibetan canons is the Kṣudraka Āgama, but there is substantial variation among the collections. More