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Khenpo Kunpal gives some very emotive commentary to this verse, imploring us not to forget that death can come at any moment. | Khenpo Kunpal gives some very emotive commentary to this verse, imploring us not to forget that death can come at any moment. | ||
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|quote-text=What guarantee can anyone give that we will not die today and that death is nothing to be afraid of? There is no one who can give us such assurance, not even a Buddha. What escape is there for us from the horrors of death? It is said in the Bhadrakaratri-sutra: | |quote-text=What guarantee can anyone give that we will not die today and that death is nothing to be afraid of? There is no one who can give us such assurance, not even a Buddha. What escape is there for us from the horrors of death? It is said in the ''Bhadrakaratri-sutra'': | ||
:What man is sure he will not die tomorrow?<br>This very day you should prepare yourself.<br>The great hordes of the Lord of Death—<br>Are they not your faithful friends? | :What man is sure he will not die tomorrow?<br>This very day you should prepare yourself.<br>The great hordes of the Lord of Death—<br>Are they not your faithful friends? | ||
Death, our own death, is coming. How can we relax in careless ease? It is highly inappropriate to rest at our leisure, eating, drinking, and amusing ourselves. As Ashvaghosha once said in his Shokavinodana: | Death, our own death, is coming. How can we relax in careless ease? It is highly inappropriate to rest at our leisure, eating, drinking, and amusing ourselves. As Ashvaghosha once said in his ''Shokavinodana'': | ||
:Of all those born upon this earth<br>Or in the upper realms,<br>Did you see, or hear, or even doubt,<br>That some were born that have not died?<ref>Fletcher and Blankleder, ''Nectar of Manjushri's Speech'', 114–15.</ref> | :Of all those born upon this earth<br>Or in the upper realms,<br>Did you see, or hear, or even doubt,<br>That some were born that have not died?<ref>Fletcher and Blankleder, ''Nectar of Manjushri's Speech'', 114–15.</ref> | ||
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