“Heedfulness is the path to the deathless; heedlessness, the path of death. The heedful do not die; the heedless are as if dead already.”
The hint
Stay awake and you walk the road that does not end; nod off and you are already gone. Every letter has always had a number.
The cipher
22 · 9 · 7 · 9 · 12
— The Dhammapada · II · c. 3rd c. BCE
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