I started reading The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche and these two questions stuck with me.
Apparently, someone approached him and said that what he says is common sense that everyone knows this. Sogyal replied: "Ask yourself these two questions:
1. Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and everyone and everything else is, and so treat all my beings at all times with compassion?
2. Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment?
If you can answer 'yes' to both of these, then you have really understood impermanence."
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