there is very little time left for practice. ~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

Very little time left for practice - scary 🕑
In this dangerous and unhealthy world, it would be quite an

achievement for someone who is fifty years old today to live

to be eighty.
The lives of most fifty-year-olds are already more than half

over, and the older we get, the quicker time seems to pass.

The thirty years we imagine we have left will pass in the

blink of an eye. For a start, we sleep for about eight hours a

night, which accounts for ten of those thirty years. Let’s

assume that watching one movie a day and eating three times

takes about four hours. We also gossip and catch up with

friends, check the football results, do housework, pay bills,

keep in touch with family and exercise, all of which probably

eats up about two hours a day. And of course, most of us work

for seven or eight hours a day.
Therefore, if we fifty-year-olds are lucky, we have less than

two hours a day, or about two and a half years, left to live.

And a great deal of that will be taken up with paranoia,

anxiety, self-doubt and so on.
So the bottom line here is there is very little time left for

practice.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche