There is, of course, a lot of disagreement about how to interpret these things. For example, there's this guy, who's built an entire career doing this exact thing (over and over again):
__________________
Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
|