The ultimate meditation: If we get rid of all wishful thinking and dubious metaphysical speculations, we can hardly doubt that—at a time not too distant—each one of us will simply cease to be. It won’t be like going into darkness forever, for there will be neither darkness, nor time, nor sense of futility, nor anyone […]
You have everything. Compare:
Today is a good day to die. Compare:
Kobayashi Issa (小林 一茶, 1763 – 1828) was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest known for his haiku poems and journals. He was born in 1763 with the name Kobayashi Yatarô to a farmer and his wife in the village of Kashiwabara, a village of approximately one hundred houses in the highlands of the province of Shinano, close […]
Practice deathbed meditation thusly: “Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.” “So is all conditioned existence to be seen.” https://diamond-sutra.com/read-the-diamond-sutra-here/diamond-sutra-chapter-32/
The first installment in a recurring series of meditations on death. Compare: Memento Mori — (Latin: remember you will die)–is the ancient practice of reflection on our mortality that goes back to Socrates, who said that the proper practice of philosophy is “about nothing else but dying and being dead.” https://dailystoic.com/what-is-memento-mori/
Comfort, contentment, refreshment—Oh joy! Act to feel good all of the time.
All life is precious, nor can any be replaced. Compare: https://www.sciencealert.com/the-first-country-in-the-world-has-given-legal-rights-to-individual-wild-animals
Civilization fosters happiness. Libraries are essential to civilization. Source: National Library Week – Conferences & Events
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