「自我」永遠都欺騙我們去追求未來，我們思考著明天或明年要做些什麼事、計劃退休的生活、孩子還沒出生就先擔心自己能為他們做些什麼。我們多麼隨便地就忘記了死亡就在門口、書桌上、椅子上，它不只是守株待兔，而是不停悄悄地逼近我們。每次在電視上看到飛機失事的消息，卻仍然覺得死亡永遠不會來臨。

"I" always deceive us to pursue the future, we think about what to do tomorrow or next year, plans the living when retire, worry about what can they do for their kids, even the baby has not yet born. How casually we have been forgetting death is at the door, on the desk and chair too. Death does not just sit back and wait, but kept approaching us quietly. Every time when we saw the news of plane crash on television, but we still think that death will never comes.

~ 宗薩欽哲仁波切 Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche