Today I may die

I was reading a book earlier about meditation and relaxing the mind. Part of this book was instruction on how to find a peaceful state of mind based on Buddhism. This part asks the reader to look at the world, his or her life, and attachments etc with the thought that 'today I may die'. At first I thought this bizarre but having reread it a number of times, having contemplated the fundamental meaning, having sat on a hill (yes I did) with the dogs running around me thinking about this philosophy I think I understand. I think ...

This is what I was thinking about when the sun shone in my face amongst the clouds and this is the picture I took. It all made me happy