The Latin saying, "Memento mori" , translates to 'remember death'.
When I got this card I asked for an additional message so I intuitively opened a page on a Buddhism book (Dharma text). Boy, did the universe wink again when the paragraph I got talks about the "Law of Karma" ! (for noobs, it's not what we usu. think it is! Sorryyy😁😉)
To live is to die one day. This is the absolute Law. And if the "Justice" inherent in all conditioned, transient things does NOT forget, it follows that it cannot forget ANYTHING. All that was thought, all that was spoken, all that was done.
The Buddha offered us a threefold way to honor and live with the inevitability of death: think rightly, speak rightly, do rightly.
Fully meditating (sitting quietly) on death is something I haven't done enough. But the beauty of this subject is that it is so, so immediate, powerful and always timely that just reminding yourself you can't stay here forever and you can't do anything about it gives you a shift, be it cognitively, energetically or otherwise.
According to the Dharma, we cannot "act" without our physical body. So our humanness here and now is a special gift, a unique power. May we not let this chance go to waste.
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