Take a mendicant who doesn’t relish work, talk, sleep, company, closeness, and proliferation. They don’t love these things or like to relish them. A mendicant who lives life like this has a good death. This is called a mendicant who delights in extinguishment, who has given up substantial reality to rightly make an end of suffering.

A beast who likes to proliferate,

enjoying proliferation,

fails to win extinguishment,

the supreme sanctuary from the yoke.

But one who gives up proliferation,

enjoying the state of non-proliferation,

wins extinguishment,

the supreme sanctuary from the yoke.”

Numbered Discourses 6.15 2. Warm-hearted Regret

There Sāriputta addressed the mendicants:

“As a mendicant makes their bed, so they must lie in it, and die tormented by regrets. And how do they die tormented by regrets?