Now, Ānanda, earlier I purposely told you that whatever there is of various agreeable matters for which one has thoughts of affection, all of this is of a nature to become separated from one; it is as I said earlier. Therefore do not be so very sad, Ānanda. You should know that soon the Tathāgata will also be of the past. Therefore, Ānanda, you should make yourself an island by relying on yourself, you should make the Dharma your island by relying on the Dharma; you should make yourself no other island, no other reliance.

1. 阿難！我所說法，內外已訖，終不自稱所見通達。
   Ānanda! I taught it, the dharma, inner and outer thereafter until now, in the end there is nothing I do not profess to have seen and understood entirely.
2. 吾已老矣，年且八十。譬如故車，方便修治得有所至。
   I hereafter am old, resolutely, my years passed are eighty. To make an analogy such as the purpose of a vehicle, a bamboo raft, a waste to be repaired after the goal has been reached.
3. 吾身亦然，以方便力得少留壽，自力精進，忍此苦痛，不念一切想，入無想定，時，我身安隱，無有惱患。
   My body is also as such, regarded as a bamboo raft whose power is spent, there is no reason to prolong life, with nonattention to all saṃjñā (original may have been 想 (“nimittā”)), I enter asaṃjñā (or “animittā”) dhyāna, at this time, my body finds occultation, is not afflicted or suffering.
4. 是故， 阿難！　當自熾燃，熾燃於法，勿他熾燃；當自歸依，歸依於法，勿他歸依。
   Consequently, Ānanda! You should regard yourself as a flame blazing, a flame blazing with the dharma, no other flame blazing; you should see yourself as a refuge, the refuge as the dharma, no other refuge.
5. 云何自熾燃， 熾燃於法，勿他熾燃； 當自歸依，歸依於法，勿他歸依？
   How do you regard yourself as a flame blazing, how are you a flame blazing with the dharma, with no other flame blazing; How should you be yourself as a refuge, a refuge of the dharma, not to take another refuge?
6. 阿難！　比丘觀內身精勤無懈，憶念不忘，除世貪憂；觀外身、觀內外身，精勤不懈，憶念不忘，除世貪憂。受、意、法觀，亦復如是。
   Ānanda! A monks regards the inner body with vitality, diligence, not lax, he removes the seed of tṛṣṇā and affliction, regards the outer body, regards the inner and outer body, with vitality, diligence, not lax, is mindful and not neglectful, he removes the seed of tṛṣṇā and affliction. Feelings, thoughts, dharmāḥ, observe (these), repeatedly thus so.
7. 是謂，阿難！自熾燃，熾燃於法，勿他熾燃；當自歸依，歸依於法，勿他歸依。」
   This is what I say, Ānanada! Yourself as a flame blazing, a flame blazing with the dharma, no other flame blazing; the same as yourself as a refuge, a refuge of the dharma, no other refuge.