Impermanence and Death Don't Wait

Impermanence and Death Don't Wait

Date Posted:
August 2009

Rinpoche made the following comments on how to make the best use of our life.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Portland, Oregon, 2006. Photo: John Berthold.

Impermanence and death don't wait for us –
Every moment, we are so close to death.

Every moment of this life is to prepare for death.
Every moment of this life is to free ourselves from suffering.
Every moment of this life is to achieve peerless happiness.
Every moment of this life is to make the greatest purification.
Every moment of this life is to accumulate extensive merit,
with the thought of impermanence and bodhicitta,
and with the practice of guru yoga,
seeing our own mind as one with the holy mind of the guru and the deity,
which is the wisdom of nondual bliss and voidness.

This is crazy Zopa's advice for students and friends, forever,
until enlightenment is achieved.