The Four Reminders

Joyful to have
Such a human birth,
Difficult to find,
Free and well-favored.

But death is real,
Comes without warning.
This body
Will be a corpse.

Unalterable
Are the laws of karma;
Cause and effect
Cannot be escaped.

Samsara
Is an ocean of suffering,
Unendurable,
Unbearably intense.

(These are the Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind Away From Samsara, a staple of Tibetan Buddhist teaching, as phrased by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1974. Source.)

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