인간 수명 100세 동안의 시기별 인간 특성
유년기(0~9세): 여리고 불안정한 어린이.
10대(10~19세): 뛰노는 시기. 뛰노는 것을 무척 좋아한다.
20대: 아름다운 시기. 아름다움이 충만해진다.
30대: 힘찬 시기. 힘과 기운이 충만해진다.
40대: 지혜로운 시기. 통찰지가 굳게 확립된다. 천성적으로 통찰지가 부족한
사람도 이 시기에 통찰지가 조금이나마 생긴다. 책 쓰고 법문하기 좋은 시기.
50대: 쇠퇴하는 시기. 놀이를 좋아함과 아름다움과 힘과 통찰지가 줄어든다.
60대: 허리가 구부러지는 시기.
70대: 허리가 쟁기처럼 완전히 굽어버린 시기.
80대: 혼미한 시기. 사띠도 없고 집중력과 기억력이 떨어져서 이미 한 것을 잊어버린다.
90대: 누어있는 시기. 100세인 사람은 대부분 누워 지낸다.
참고자료
- 대림 스님, 『청정도론 3』, 초기불전연구원, (ⅩⅩ. 51.) 244-245쪽.
- 우 실라난다 사야도 가르침, 등현 스님 통역, 『아비담마 보충 교재』, 보리수선원, 2004, 41쪽
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- Bhikkhu Ñāṇanoli, 『The Path of Purification』, Fifth Ed. 1991, BPS, Kandy, Sri Lanka, (ⅩⅩ. 51.) pp.641-642.
51. Herein, as to these decades:
in the first place, the first ten years of a person with a hundred years’ life are called the tender decade; for then he is a tender unsteady child.
The next ten years are called the sport decade; for he is very fond
of sport then.
The next ten years are called the beauty decade; for his beauty
reaches its full extent then.
The next ten years are called the strength decade; for his strength and power reach their full extent then.
The next ten years are called the understanding decade; for his understanding is well established by then. Even in one naturally weak in understanding some understanding, it seems, arises at that time.
The next ten years are called the decline decade; for his fondness for sport and his beauty, strength, and understanding decline then. The next ten years are called the stooping decade; for his figure stoops forward then.
The next ten years are called the bent decade; for his figure becomes bent like the end of a plough then.
The next ten years are called the dotage decade; for he is doting
then and forgets what he does.
The next ten years are called the prone decade; for a centenarian mostly lies prone.