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Four Reflections
 

A Rare Opportunity
Having the freedoms and favorable conditions to become liberated in this life Makes this life too valuable to waste
On trying to become materially successful, high or important.
Recognizing the possibilities, I feel like a poor person
Who has just discovered a priceless jewel.

Yes, this life is valuable, but the time is flying by.
Like a bubble, everything of this world will vanish.
Since ordinary pursuits aren't going to help the situation even a bit,
I've decided to open to the Dharma, the heart of the sublime Teachings.

Impermanence
The world we know, including the earth and everything on it,
Will be destroyed in time.
The four seasons, like mere moments, come and go.
Everything is impermanent, all wisddom agrees to the end of forms.

Life and breath are like lightning and dew.
It is not even certain which will come first, tomorrow or the world hereafter. Everyone who is born dies.

If I only think about the Dharma but don't practice it,
Laziness and meaningless wandering will rule my life.
Since I will have to face my own death,
I had better practice without further delaying.

At death, wealthy, powerful and famous people
Will have to leave everything behind, just the same as anyone else.
At my own death, alone, I will be entering another form.
Karma will follow us beyond this life, like a shadow follows a body.

Cause and Effect
Action always has result, no action has no result.
A birth results from every activity.
Activities, virtuous and non-virtuous, create (respectively),
Happiness and suffering, an inevitable ripening for the doer.

Life lasts but a moment, but the cycle of samsara could go on endlessly.
To end this self-denigration I must consider the principle of cause and effect.
To achieve emacipation I must perfect my commitments and work on myself.
No fault should stain the course of my life.

The Cycle of Samsara
From the peak of life's highs, to the depths of it's problems,
The attempt to maintain only happiness is like
Holding that you can traverse a jungle of razors
Or walk through a trench of fire without being hurt.
My accomplishments, I cling to as my success.
But none of these have brought me a deep or a consistent happiness.

Therefore, in my life today, still lost in this very repetition,
Confusion and suffering have not ended.
Recognizing this situation as unacceptable, a fierce determination arises in me.

I choose to enter the path of freedom,
To follow the Great Ones' successful way,
And thereby, to attain buddhahood in this very life.

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