Up One's Nostrils For Safe Keeping

 

So many things to love about Boody-dom... from the notion that "Everybody gets completely liberated or nobody gets completely liberated" to not requiring belief in invisible friends and overlords, to all our little lists. We have scads of lists.... The Ten Perfections, The Four Noble Truths, Three Marks of Existence, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Five Aggregates, Four Boundless States, Five Hindrances... (There are more - you can look em up).  I have a favorite one. It's a list that strikes a chord with me as one who, as one of my children recently noted, loves gloom and doom** - The Five Remembrances (TFR). TFR retrieves a person from their reveries and slams reality right up that person's nostrils..     To wit, The Five Remembrances, accompanied by my neighbor's daisies (Thanks B)....

1.) I am of the nature to grow old; there is no way to escape growing old.

 

 

2.)  I am of the nature to have ill health; there is no way to escape ill health.

3.) I am of the nature to die; there is no way to escape death.

 

4.)  All that is dear to me and everyone I love are

of the nature to change; there is no way
to escape being separated from them.

 

 

 

5.) My actions are my only true belongings;
I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.
My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

 

 

 

 

(** It's not so much that I love gloom & doom...it's more

that I refuse to look away and pretend that
Everything Is Fine.....)

 

 

 

 

 

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