Endeavor to Live Moderately

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. — Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Within context of Buddhism, what Twain means is to live moderately such that, regardless of your station, few people will have ill to say of you when you've passed on to the Pure Land.

This is no excuse to do nothing with your life, for all of us are capable doing more than that.

Instead, it is encouragement to be all that you can be, and to transcend your station, even when circumstances may limit you from full expression of your true potential.