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