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.
Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
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).
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