Practicing the Five Remembrances in daily life
1. I am of the nature to grow old; I cannot escape growing old.
2. I am of the nature to become ill; I cannot escape illness.
3. I am of the nature to die; I cannot escape death.
4. All actions created and caused by my bodily, verbal, and mental karma cannot be separated from me. I cannot abandon them — whether they are wholesome or unwholesome karma.
Fully aware of this, I strive to uphold, cultivate, and develop wholesome karma, and at the same time, I also strive to recognize, transform, and purify unwholesome karma.
All loved ones and the things I cherish today are subject to arising and ceasing, to change and impermanence; one day, I must part from them. I cannot escape this separation.
5. I am the owner of my wholesome and unwholesome karma. I am the heir to all their consequences. I cannot escape the results of what I have created.
Karma is my womb, relative, and companion on the endless path, and the only possession I carry with me beyond this life. O
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