Koan: If everything perishes in the end, where do you stay?
Praise someone sincerely in your mind and heart and you take on his or her good karma. Seeing the best in others also increases your good qualities. By acknowledging the best in another person, you are also eliciting the best in yourself. Have admiration for great and pure souls.
Death meditation has nine points divided into three sections: Inevitability of death - everyone will die, including you; in the time it takes to read or say this sentence you are nearer to death, life flows on and cannot be stopped; assess how you spend your life and how much time you spend on beneficial activities like meditation as well as the pointless things you do; Uncertainty of time of death - life can end at any time, you cannot know when you will die, so make the most of each moment; there are many causes of death and you do not know what yours will be; our bodies are fragile and prone to illness, so even if you are well now, this may not last; Only spiritual insight is useful when you die - possessions cannot be taken with us and are of no use when we die; friends and family can do nothing when we die, and death is only experienced alone; even our own bodies cannot be relied upon and they become useless when we die.