From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: [O]ne must rehearse for death throughout one’s life – for life, properly understood, is really only a journey toward death, we are dying every...

  Lives: Dharmagram #370 Or rather…  We have lived many lives  in many bodies  with many...

  Cycle: Dharmagram #307 In Samsara, after an up comes a down… thus the need for liberation from it all. (Comic by Tom...

Round: Dharmagram #127 Too many rounds and too fast on the existential merry-go-round becomes not so merry, even possible to get landsick, without becoming seasick, just by the...

Update: Dharmagram #114 Work on updating yourself spiritually, even if it takes a while, but don’t restart many times – seek birth in Amituofo’s Pure Land for the ultimate...

Wellness: Dharmagram #97 Live well to die well. Die better to be reborn...

A slightly different book version found: 畜牲本是人来做， 人畜轮回古到今。 若不披毛并戴角， 劝君休使畜性心。 – 普庵禅师 Animals [including livestock] originally were humans, [who have] become [them, as] humans and animals [are] reborn [as one another from] ancient times till [the] present, [and as other beings]. If not...

Crossing: Dharmagram #77 Cross black and white  to get to the other side. Cross birth and death  to get to the other...

Wake: Dharmagram #72 When reminded of death, be it before, during and after WAKEs, may we further aWAKEn spiritually, to work towards liberation from the cycle of birth and...

Frankenstein: Dharmagram #71 The poignant epigraph of the ‘Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus)’, the classic novel by Mary Shelley, is a quote from John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’, that existentially questions why one was ‘created’ by a...