Memento mori V
You have everything. Compare:
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.
“Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti Happiness Is Strange
The body craves ecstasy. If the body cannot reach ecstatic states in constructive ways, it will seek them in destructive ways. War gins up anger in its prosecutors so that it becomes rage, an ecstasy. War gins up fear in its victims so that it becomes terror, another ecstasy. To forestall war, seek to live […]