Meditation 17 Worksheet

Meditation 17 Translation - Flattened-1

My Epigraph

Naked birth, concealed life, foolish death

We are all born with certain gifts; we can all do things that others can’t. I might be able to learn music, language, sport, cuisine, or science faster than other people could. However, I met people and I innocence and ideal beliefs dissipated forever. The purpose of my lives is lost forever. When I am led astray, I will then try to cover up the wrongdoings I have committed by living another person’s life. Now what? My life turns cold and colorless. I am just a fool suffocated by the pressure over me. Now, it is all too late. The alleviation will be death, because other options faded away soon after I conceal up whatever I once had. 

Response to Death

What is the appropriate response to death?

People embarked on missions in search of cures for morality, but they ended up dead anyway. Death is a process that consummates life, so we could never outrun it. Our existence came through birth, and will end by death. It is just an universal law we have to accept.

We should accept death and not let it inflect our daily lives. We should live our lives to the fullest, so, when death knocks on our doors, we will have not regret. We should always be ourselves -  to love and hate. The concealment of our true identity is the root of unsatisfactory life. We should simply do what we want to do and say what we want to say, because when death comes, those words will never be uttered and those actions would never be taken. Death was meant to be accepted, not to be altered. Life is like a play. We never try to change the storyline; we follow it act by act. We judge the play fairly after the journey ends. Death is just a reflection of what we have done in our lives. It shows us what to be proud and ashamed of. Life is like a ticking clock; we never know when the clock will stop clicking. But while it is still ticking, we should utilize the time smartly. When we take a timed test, we do all we can before the time is called, and there is nothing much we can about it afterward. It is not much difference from life, so why think about when life while end, just embrace what we have before the time runs out.