Calm is Sound Realistic Reason...!


Buddha praised this simple contemplation for everyday progress:
Five things have been well taught by the Blessed One who knows and sees,
the Purified One, Perfectly Self-Enlightened by himself, that is, the five
subjects for daily recollection by women and men, monks and householders.
What are the five?
1: I am prone to decay, I am not yet beyond decay.
2: I am prone to get a disease, I am not yet beyond disease.
3: I am prone to die, I have not yet got beyond this certain death.
4: All I hold as mine, dear and delightful, will change, crumble & then vanish.
5: I am the owner of my kamma, born of my kamma, created & conditioned
by my kamma, inheritor of my kamma, related and joined to my kamma, my
life now is supported by my prior kamma. Whatever kamma I will perform,
whether good or evil, of that shall I only experience the resulting effects!
Anguttara Nikāya V, 57

More on contemplation and recollection (Anussati):
Buddha_Contemplation, Dhamma_Contemplation, Sangha_Contemplation,
Generosity_Contemplation, Divinity_Contemplation, Death_Contemplation,
Body_Contemplation, The_7_Contemplations, Successful_Reviewing.

Source: BPS Wheel no 54 (Edited Excerpt):
The Mirror of the Dhamma. A Manual of Buddhist Devotional Texts.
By Nārada Thera and Bhikkhu Kassapa. Revised By Bhikkhu Khantipālo:
http://www.bps.lk/wh054-u.html

Sound Reason...