If you don’t reflect on death and impermanence, there’ll be no way to practise Dharma purely, practice will remain an aspiration, one that is constantly postponed, and you may feel regret the day that death comes, but by then it’s too late!

Chatral Rinpoche

from the book Compassionate Action

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• Failing to let go of ordinary concerns
• Gaining the riches of a Dharma practitioner
• The best form of austerity
• Taking advantage of our human existence
• A disciplined mind
• Not enjoying meat or alcohol
• Your own true enemies
• View and conduct
• Use it well
• There is nothing more to it than that
• But when you die
• No real happiness
• All you need
• Act accordingly
• Three kinds of dharma practitioners
• The path of nonviolence
• Our responsibility