Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
Life is uncertain; death is certain.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).
