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Memento Mori

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Memento mori (Latin: "recall that you will die") is the medieval Latin hypothesis and routine of reflection on mortality, particularly as a method for considering the vanity of natural life and the transient way of every single natural great and interests. It is identified with the ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") and related writing. Keepsake mori has been a critical piece of parsimonious trains as a method for consummating the character, by developing separation and different ethics, and turning the consideration towards the interminability of the spirit and the afterlife.

In workmanship, tokens mori are masterful or typical indications of mortality. In the European Christian craftsmanship setting, "the expression... created with the development of Christianity, which underlined Heaven, Hell, and salvation of the spirit in the afterlife."

Pronuncation and translation

In English, the expression is articulated IPA:/məˈmenˌtoʊ ˈmɔriː/, mə-men-toh mor-ee. 

Token is the second individual particular future dynamic basic of meminī 'to recall, to hold up under as a top priority', generally filling in as a notice: recollect!; mori is the present dynamic infinitive of morior, truly "to die".

At the end of the day, 'recollect demise' or 'recall that you should die'.

Historic usage Plato's Phaedo, where the demise of Socrates is described, presents the correct routine of logic is "about nothing else except for biting the dust and being dead." The Stoics were especially conspicuous in their utilization of this teach, and Seneca's letters are loaded with directives to mull over death. 

Europe-Medieval Through Victorian The idea made its mark with Christianity, whose solid accentuation on awesome judgment, Heaven, Hell, and the salvation of the spirit conveyed demise to the front line of consciousness. Many keepsake mori works are results of Christian art,[10] in spite of the fact that there are reciprocals in Buddhist craftsmanship. In the Christian setting, the token mori gets a lecturing reason very restricted to the Nunc est bibendum (this is the ideal opportunity to drink) topic of Classical artifact. To the Christian, the possibility of death serves to stress the void and short life of natural delights, extravagances, and accomplishments, and in this way likewise as a welcome to concentrate one's considerations on the possibility of the great beyond. A Biblical order regularly connected with the token mori in this setting is In omnibus operibus tuis memorare novissima tua, et in aeternum non peccabis (the Vulgate's Latin rendering of Ecclesiasticus 7:40, "in all thy works be aware of thy last end and thou shrivel never sin.") This discovers custom expression in the ceremonies of Ash Wednesday, when fiery debris are put upon the admirers' heads with the words "Recollect Man that you are tidy and unto tidy you might return." 

The most clear places to search for token mori contemplations are in memorial service workmanship and engineering. Maybe the most striking to contemporary personalities is the transi, or dead body tomb, a tomb that portrays the rotted cadaver of the perished. This turned into a design in the tombs of the affluent in the fifteenth century, and surviving cases still make a stark indication of the vanity of natural wealth. Afterward, Puritan tomb stones in the provincial United States every now and again portrayed winged skulls, skeletons, or blessed messengers snuffing out candles. These are among the various subjects related with skull symbolism. 

Another case of token mori is given by the houses of prayer of bones, for example, the Capela dos Ossos in Évora or the Capuchin Crypt in Rome. These are houses of prayer where the dividers are absolutely or incompletely secured by human remains, generally bones. The passage to the previous has the sentence "We bones, lying here uncovered, anticipate for yours." 

The acclaimed danse shocking, with its moving delineation of the Grim Reaper stealing away rich and poor alike, is another outstanding case of the token mori subject. This and comparable portrayals of Death finished numerous European places of worship. Danse Macabre, Op. 40, is a tone ballad for ensemble, written in 1874 by French writer Camille Saint-Saëns. 

Timepieces were once in the past an adept update that your time on Earth becomes shorter with every excruciating moment. Open timekeepers would be designed with witticisms, for example, ultima forsan ("maybe the last" [hour]) or vulnerant omnes, ultima necat ("they all twisted, and the last kills"). Indeed, even today, timekeepers frequently convey the proverb tempus fugit, "time escapes". Old striking tickers regularly wore automata who might show up and strike the hour; a portion of the commended machine timekeepers from Augsburg, Germany, had Death striking the hour. The few mechanized "passing timekeepers" resuscitate this old thought. Private individuals conveyed littler indications of their own mortality. Mary, Queen of Scots, claimed an extensive watch cut as a silver skull, adorned with the lines of Horace. 

A form of the topic in the creative sort of still life is all the more frequently alluded to as a vanitas, Latin for "vanity". These incorporate images of mortality, regardless of whether evident ones like skulls, or more unpretentious ones, similar to a blossom losing its petals. 

After the creation of photography, many individuals had photos taken of as of late dead relatives. 

Keepsake mori was likewise a critical scholarly subject. Understood scholarly contemplations on death in English composition incorporate Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living and Holy Dying. These works were a piece of a Jacobean clique of depression that denoted the finish of the Elizabethan time. In the late eighteenth century, scholarly epitaphs were a typical sort; Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Edward Young's Night Thoughts are average individuals from the class. 

Aside from the class of memorial and burial service music, there is additionally a rich custom of token mori in the Early Music of Europe. Particularly those confronting the ever-introduce passing amid the repeating bubonic torment pandemics from the 1340s forward attempted to toughen themselves by envisioning the unavoidable in serenades, from the straightforward Geisslerlieder of the Flagellant development to the more refined cloistral or elegant tunes. The verses regularly took a gander at life as an important and inherent vale of tears with death as a payment and reminded individuals to have blameless existences to stand a shot at Judgment Day. Two stanzas regular of token mori in medieval music are from the virelai promotion mortem festinamus of the Catalan Llibre Vermell de Montserrat from 1399: 

Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur, 

Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur, 

Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur. 

Promotion mortem festinamus peccare desistamus. 

Life is short, and in a matter of seconds it will end; 

Passing comes rapidly and regards nobody, 

Passing annihilates everything and shows compassion for nobody. 

To death we are hurrying, given us a chance to abstain from erring. 

Ni conversus fueris et sicut puer factus 

Et vitam mutaveris in meliores actus, 

Intrare non poteris regnum Dei beatus. 

Advertisement mortem festinamus peccare desistamus. 

In the event that you don't turn back and get to be distinctly similar to a kid, 

Furthermore, improve your life, 

You won't have the capacity to enter, favored, the Kingdom of God. 

To death we are rushing, given us a chance to avoid erring. 

In the late sixteenth and through the seventeenth century keepsake mori rings were made.

Religious use Keepsake mori was the welcome utilized by the Hermits of St. Paul of France (1620-1633), otherwise called the Brothers of Death. It is in some cases asserted that the Trappists utilize this welcome, yet this is not true.

Puritan America 
Frontier American workmanship saw a substantial number of token mori pictures because of Puritan impact. The Puritan people group in seventeenth century North America looked downward on craftsmanship, since they trusted it drew the unwavering far from God, and if far from God, then it could just prompt to the fallen angel. In any case, representations were viewed as authentic records, and in that capacity they were permitted. Thomas Smith, a seventeenth century Puritan, battled in numerous maritime fights and furthermore painted. In his self-picture, we see an ordinary puritan token mori with a skull, proposing his inescapable passing. 

The lyric under the skull accentuates Thomas Smith's acknowledgment of death: 

Why should I the World be disapproving, Therein a World of Evils Finding. At that point Farwell World: Farwell thy jarres, thy Joies thy Toies thy Wiles thy Warrs. Truth Sounds Retreat: I am not sorye. The Eternall Drawes to him my heart, By Faith (which can thy Force Subvert) To Crowne me (after Grace) with Glory.

Mexico Much token mori craftsmanship is related with the Mexican celebration Day of the Dead, including skull-molded confections and bread pieces decorated with bread "bones." 

This subject was likewise broadly communicated underway of the Mexican etcher José Guadalupe Posada, in which different strolls of life are delineated as skeletons. 

Another appearance of keepsake mori is found in the Mexican "Calavera", a scholarly organization in verse shape regularly written out of appreciation for a man who is still alive, yet composed as though that individual were dead. These organizations have a comedic tone and are regularly offered starting with one companion then onto the next amid Day of the Dead. 

In Buddhism 
Maraṇasati, a word happening in the early Buddhist messages (the suttapiṭaka of the Pāli Canon), is a compound word made out of the two words "maraṇa" and "sati". The interpretation of these words is comparative (if not precisely the same) as the interpretation for "token mori". Maraṇa signifies "demise" and sati can signify 'recall', so the compound word would mean something like "recollect passing" (token mori). 

Zen and Samurai 
In Japan, the impact of Zen Buddhist examination of death on indigenous culture can be gaged by the accompanying citation from the great treatise on samurai morals, Hagakure:[15] 

The Way of the Samurai is, morning in the wake of morning, the act of death, considering whether it will be here or be there, envisioning the most sightly method for kicking the bucket, and putting one's psyche immovably in death. In spite of the fact that this might be a most troublesome thing, on the off chance that one will do it, it should be possible. There is nothing that one ought to assume can't be done.[16] 

In the yearly valuation for cherry bloom and fall hues, Hanami and Momijigari, the Samurai philosophized that things are most awe inspiring right now before their fall, and to plan to live amazing a comparative form. 

Tibetan Buddhism 
In Tibetan Buddhism, there is a mind preparing rehearse known as Lojong. The second of the "preliminaries" to hone in this content is a call to "Know about the truth that life closes; demise seeks everybody; Impermanence."This recognition of the impermanence of life and the certainty of death is one of the Four Thoughts, on the other hand deciphered as Remembrances or Contemplations. 

There is additionally the well known "Tibetan Book of the Dead" or Bardo Thodol and related writing. 

In Islam 
The "recognition of death" ("dhikr al-mawt") has been a noteworthy point of Islamic otherworldly existence (i.e. "tazkiya" which means self-cleansing, or decontamination of the heart) since the season of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina. It is grounded in the Qur'an, where there are repeating directives to pay regard to the destiny of past generations.The hadith writing, which safeguards the lessons of Prophet Muhammad, records guidance for adherents to "recall regularly passing, the destroyer of joys." Some Sufis have been called "ahl al-qubur," the "general population of the graves," in view of their routine of frequenting burial grounds to contemplate on mortality and the vanity of life, in light of the educating of the Prophet Muhammad to visit graves. Al-Ghazali dedicates to this subject the last book of his "Recovery of the Religious Sciences".





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