B Reflect that birth cannot have any other end than death, but the time of death is uncertain. At the time of death nothing whatsoever will be of any use except the Dharma. Sometimes you should imagine, how you are struck by an illness and die, how your corpse is carried to the charnel ground and becomes a skeleton, and how your consciousness roams powerlessly like a feather blown by the wind. This is how you should kindle a short term way of thinking with a sense of weariness and urgency.

Reflect that birth cannot have any other end than death, but the time of death is uncertain. At the time of death nothing whatsoever will be of any use except the Dharma. Sometimes you should imagine, how you are struck by an illness and die, how your corpse is carried to the charnel ground and becomes a skeleton, and how your consciousness roams powerlessly like a feather blown by the wind. This is how you should kindle a short term way of thinking with a sense of weariness and urgency.