Ichi-Ren-Taku-Shou

share the same fate. share a person's fate.
be in the same boat.

kanji meaning :

• Ichi = a. one. the first. the beginning. an ace.
  


• Ren = a lotus. ( lotus frower - Flower name )
  


• Taku = entrust. trust. leave. (= Taku(-su)).
  


• Shou = life. exist. alive. (= I(-kiru)).
  

The buddhist ideas.
After a person's death,
the good people are born again (reborn) on the lotus leaf in the paradise.