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The Countdown of Life Has Begun

— Utopden Rinpoche
The Countdown of Life Has Begun
2026.10.07
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A human life averages only 70 years; subtract one-third for sleep and you have just over 40 years left, subtract the childhood years up to 15, subtract working time, playtime, time spent ill, and you...how many years are left?I believe most people hope to have remaining time to enjoy family happiness and affection.Each day lived is one day fewer; all things die, and being born is waiting to die.This sentence sounds negative, but it is an indisputable fact.Suppose you knew that you would die three years from now; would you not find some way to do something for your parents, partner, children and good friends?You would find ways to let them go on living happily and carefree, right!And perhaps only then would you begin to think about where you will go after you die.What is the world after death like?So almost no one thinks much about this question in the first half of life, and only in the second half do people begin to realize that this is more important to them than anything else!So they begin to turn to religious belief, hoping to get answers and help from religion, and no matter how much time and money it costs, they do not mind, and of course those with ulterior motives know this too.But you cannot gamble on a sect!Why do I say it is a gamble?Because you come to know it in a state of blind ignorance; what is this if not a wager?Before you joined this sect, did you already understand its central ideas?Or did you only gradually come to understand them after spending several years inside?What if you later find out it was wrong!Time cannot be turned back!

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