Impermanence & Memento Mori
Often alone, every first light of dawn,
I have had to speak my sorrows. There is no one living to whom I would dare to reveal clearly my deepest thoughts.
Anonymous, The Wanderer
The Shadow - Carl Jung's Warning to The World Click
To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
Michel de Montaigne
"All conditioned things are impermanent—when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. This is the path to purification."
(Thanissaro Bhikkhu, The Dhammapada: A Translation, 1997)
Metta sutta:
“… May all beings be at ease. Whatever living beings there may be, whether they are weak or strong, omitting none, the great or the mighty, medium, short or small, the seen and the unseen, those living near and far away, those born and to be born — may all beings be at ease.
Let none deceive another, or despise any being in any state. Let none through anger or ill-will wish harm upon another.
Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child, so with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings; radiating kindness over the entire world: spreading upwards to the skies, and downwards to the depths; outwards and unbounded, freed from hatred and ill-will.
Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down free from drowsiness, one should sustain this recollection. This is said to be the sublime abiding. By not holding to fixed views, the pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision, being freed from all sense-desires, is not born again into this world.
From the Khuddaka Nikaya, Sutta Nipata 9
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