Originally Posted by
Omnis Dei
I'm no longer talking about life as a whole.
I'm talking about your favorite drinking cup. When a buddhist monk was asked why he was so attached to his drinking cup when he taught non-attachment, he replied, "Well I like the way the light refracts and forms rainbows on the glass, I like the way its shaped, and I know it's already broken"
What is the next stage of your drinking cup, after now? Broken glass. In that sense, the drinking cup you love so much is already broken. (if you don't have a favorite drinking cup then replace this metaphor with something else)
So what is the purpose of seeing something as its next possible change? It makes their current form more appreciable. It makes you less likely to take it for granted.
In this sense if you live as a dead man, not actively pursuing death but at peace with your next (perhaps last) big change, surrendered to the fact that it could happen at any moment, even now, life becomes more savorable. Everything becomes truly a gift.