appamado amatapadam pamado maccuno padam mindfulness is the way to the deathless nibbana unmindfulness is the way to death those who are mindful do not die those who are not mindful are as if already dead pamado maccuno padam lit unmindfulness is the way to death according to the commentary one who is unmindful cannot be liberated from rebirth when reborn one must grow old and die so unmindfulness is the cause of death summon