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Being Nobody, Going Nowhere

Buddhist nun Ayya Khema Dao Dieu Vietnamese translation

Wisdom Publications, 1987

Chapter 7

Karma and Reincarnation

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"I do all my career. Now I inherited. Born, I brought now. Now I and interrelated. I live under the guidance of industry. Now I create something, good or bad, I will leaders who later life. " The Buddha taught that we must remind ourselves every day so. These things are so important that we have a day like that in mind?

Karma means action. At the time of the Buddha, it has been used with such meaning. "Karma Yoga" Yoga means of action. But the Buddha said: "Karma, dear monks, as we say, the deliberate (volitional)". Karma is not just any action, but only on intentionality behind every action. Not only as a deliberate act but while thinking, talking. Another theory, if we use the word Karma to just act, and the result of the action, is not true, but for too long has been used in that sense, it is difficult to understand one another better Karma.

Action to do with intentionality is very different from the heartless actions. If I accidentally stepped on an ant dies, it is not karma of killing, though I have a lack of mindfulness. Since there is no deliberate, intentional act that follows. But if there is a drive in the park, and we want to clean it up by spraying the ant nests, intentionally kill them as much as possible, that is we have karma for killing the host center behind the that action.

Anything we do to deliberately bring consequences are, because we have thought about them before taking action. So we should be wary of all his thoughts. That is when we can practice meditation. Be aware of your thought process, would create new karma, if not just act without deliberate, intentional. When we know about, our own thoughts, we can change them for the better, rather than in one direction, in the direction to create good karma.

People often say: "I created the karma to be reborn beautiful than me." It is an exchange that has commercial character. Doing something in exchange for something else. Oil is better than acting on instinct, lack of intentionality, it is difficult for us to bring better results for the full ego that way.

Action needs to be improved in clarity, knowing that failure to do so, we only bring suffering to ourselves. Kusala is a prerequisite to help us live in peace, in harmony with ourselves, with others. Thought to be the result of waiting, yearning, clinging. All these desires only bring disappointment.

Without any desire to become a reality as we wish. The expectations lead us to a better future is based on the present moment. Afterlife, or life after that, and then after that, what life? Five minutes to the stars? Action should have been doing good with all that soul can not think of anything else. But if there is something else to intercept, then wisdom will tell us the right choice.

When two people make a move, they will not have the same karma. The Buddha compared the evil deeds of two tablespoons of salt to give a glass of water or put down the Ganges. Glass will not drink salt water, but the water of the Ganges where nothing changes. Also, with both a line 'river improvement' is a wrong action does not affect anything.

But if we only have a 'happy juice' is just a wrong action is enough to make life bitter. Because we do not know what effect created in a previous life, it's better that we hypothesize that happiness just filled a glass of water. Sometimes we often wonder why there are people who do evil but which still live happily. Family, money and health are good. Why are they not punished?

They have not been punished there. They will receive the consequences of their deeds. They do not have what is called an accident or chance. Nothing happens in the universe is random. Moon, stars, sun - everything is going according to the law, the earth we live too. My career too.

Now regardless, we should remember that. It is not known partiality. It is cause and effect. It does not pay attention to the action. What has to be kept in the river, will be there and will achieve results when 'ripe'.

 

We carry a number of 'habit' from the previous life, but much of what happens to us is the result of the actions of the present life. I do not have to think: "Oh, maybe that is the result of the work I've done two or three lifetimes ago," or

"If I do that, then my life will be safe." Such thinking is shirking responsibility.

If we are responsible for ourselves, then we will be sure to remember that what we have done or omitted to do something, even in the life to lead to results like today, like right now this.

We can easily recognize the relationship. Any action clever, well what do we have in this life, and give us the results. We latent ability, strength, health, my personality. We are the creator of your destiny. No one can really do for us is. If we believe that someone can act on behalf me, and I did not understand the meaning of the sentence: "I do all of my business." Now the only thing we can possess. Everything else is borrowed. I will not take anything less now. Everything else who post birth we inherit. Only now are mine.

When recycled, we now bring the coast, and the coast now create context, opportunities for us. We have a choice, but not absolute. We all have a choice as to the monastery should not. When you have selected is present in that place, you have to make a good career. When listening to French, you have the choice to listen or drowsy or listen with the heart.

When listening center slope, you have a choice then immediately forget or try to retain. And if you are holding, you will keep them by being practical or just interesting in mind for them. When you choose to live in France, you can either choose to live like this always or only when there is occasion, convenient circumstances.

There is a choice of non-stop, every moment is our right. Every moment, except when he sleeps, every moment is karma. That is why we need to complete his artistic life moment by moment. If we do not watch every moment to make his career, it's hard to make out much beneficial for us.

How many moments can occur sin. So attention must be guarded because every moment is a moment that lanhung choice of career moments. We have the choice as wise, skillful, the more we create better opportunities for themselves. Like living in a house with many doors, windows, we will have that much to choose from when the door to leave the house.

If we continue with the wrong choice, then our chances will decrease gradually until we woke up in prison, where opportunities were behind the door of choice. At that time, we will not have any choice until they are freed. Sometimes we wonder why other people seem to have many options to include interesting work, while we have no choice at all, it is because we have created now.

Buddha said there are people born in the light and walked toward the light. Someone born in the light, to go into darkness. There he was born in the dark, but the light went on. And finally, there are those born in the dark, to keep going in the dark. This means that, though I was born in whatever circumstances, we still have many opportunities to choose from.

There is a woman named Helen Keller was born deaf, dumb and blind. Yet she is still studying, writing and teaching other people with disabilities live better. Apparently she was born in the dark, but the light went on.

All of us in every moment to have a chance with her. If we missed an opportunity, we can never have a second chance like that again. So when we lose an opportunity, just like we've locked down the door of my life back home. Therefore fully focused for every moment is a necessary move.

The Buddha is like a drive for career spider, a spider drive was braided so skillfully that we do not know where the first spider fiber is fiber end. We can not know if their illness is due today did something bad or fifteen years ago because we did not pay any attention to eating problems yesterday.

Causation is also our spider ropes that crisscross obviously do not know why these things happen, so that. But we can understand the reason of the happening of importance in our lives. I can easily recall the wrong choice for easy on yourself, and the consequences they cause.

From now to the past or will happen in the future does not matter, because the past is like a dream, the future is yet to come. That we should be concerned that our present moment, the rest is all just a dream, I do not know which province or love, do not know what is happening. Nothing delights in life such as when covered in fog. All of us unenlightened as they live in the fog, but we can awaken from his dream. In fact, there are moments other than the present moment.

I can not relive the past or experience the future. Only one thing only we can do is: live for this moment. To do so, we must fully awake, aware. Awake and aware of all of my heart.

The mind is all. Nothing can exist without the mind-made. Mind is the driving force underlying how we make out now. I have three gateways: thought, speech and action (body, speech and mind). This is a three-door lead us to create now, and come into contact with the outside world through three doors.

Though thinking underlying motivation, it creates the lightest if not now appear in word or action. For example, I hate everyone, and a thought flashed through his head: "If he come near me again, I'll kill him," but did not say anything or do anything.

Oil is a bad idea, creating bad karma, but because there is no specific action, karma is so light. But if you continue to think like that it will create habits gradually lead uttered words. If you guys hate me closer, I actually said:

"If you come near me, I'll kill you", it will be worse now. Firstly we will create enemies, and we reinforce negative thoughts verbally. And if evil continues to say it will lead us to action. At that very heavy karma and how to bring dire consequences. Thoughts, ideas need to be guarded and modified if necessary. If a bad idea sparked, best not to keep it into words or actions.

Samsara

Reincarnation is one of the many topics discussed lively, full of hope, excitement or objection, dismissed. One of the classic metaphor of reincarnation is the candle. A candle was burnt from the heart. A different candle is burning candles dying from it, and then faded, then another candle to be lit up. Obviously there were other wax candle, but the flame, which is the old flame or fire continued to burn last?

If we do a referendum, they will make sure that half old, told the new female division. The truth is no one hit at all. Here is just a continuation of energy. The heat has been forwarded. Heat is energy, and it is like our rebirth-a continuation of the heat, love the energy of life. Enduring passion was never reduced until liberation.

One day the Buddha asked the same Vacchagotta death: "O Buddha, after enlightenment dead guys going?". The Buddha replied: "This same element, just picked up the small sticks around and fire up the team." The same e-gatherers and fire sticks. Then he said: "Let's put more wood on." The same element as the Buddha said. Buddha asked:

"How's it going?". Vacchagotta replied: "Yes, very good fire." Then he said: "Well do not give up on adding more wood." Then the dying fire. Buddha asked: "How's it going?". "Yes, the fire had ended, sir." Buddha said: "What has the fire go? Going forward? Or behind? Hand? Must? Up or down?". The same mail reply: "Yes, do not go anywhere. It just shut down." Buddha said: "Yes. This is what will happen to them after death Enlightenment".

Do not add fuel to the flame lit passion, desire, to life and death, the flame goes out. Enlightenment who do not create, they will not now reincarnation. With us - still desire to survive - and that is our passport to go into samsara. The heat of passion is the energy transition. Sometimes, there are passion arising opposite. I do not want to live because life is too hard. "I want to live" or "I do not want to live", are just illusions of the ego. To be alive is that the most intense desires. So intense in bed waiting for death, there are also many people let go, give up lightly.

They say dying moments as the most precious moments you become enlightened, because that moment is the moment we give up ownership of the body. But most of us do not want to hand down. Oil was helpless body, we still struggle, struggle. However, if we voluntarily surrender it may be enlightened moment. When our lives are comfortable and everything in the world is like that: we have good food, healthy body, loving people around us - then we do not see the need to abandon this life. Freeing the time is not optimal. But when about to die, it may be something we have to do: let go by destiny.

What has been etched in the mind through habits of thought, speech and action to create professional quality husband. What is reincarnation, rebirth will be a hereditary graphics, a graphics professional, totally regardless. Buddha said it is a mistake to think that karma and karma is a leader, but also think that is wrong. The truth is both.

There is a legacy but no one entity. There's a personal cause and cold, but a continuation. Regenerated person is not the same man has lost perhaps understandable because the body, mind, emotions have changed. Everything has changed since the moment until now was created at retribution. But there is a continuity between the sow's head and the results, it is clear. So we now embraces life. In that now covers the past, but does not mean that we can say: "Oh, that's just my career," then give up the goods.

 

There are teachers under the Buddha taught that all things are created by the industry, so we do not have any choice. The Buddha taught that denied entrance. Also available under the Buddha say no now. No matter what we do, no consequences at all. Buddha does not endorse this way of thinking. There is karma, is karma, but we also have the right to choose their own.

When teaching about reincarnation, rebirth, the Buddha has compared my last thoughts before dying in a cattle shed. If you do not have the most powerful animal, the animal is usually the leader will lead the group out of the stable. If the men usually do not have children, then I will go stand in front of barn door. If all you are not scrambling to the front.

That means that our thoughts before death will create momentum for reincarnation, rebirth. That does not mean that all of the past were now passing away, that's just my situation regeneration affected. Industrial units' strongest, heaviest sure that time will show up and lead us to it. If not, then our thoughts will usually appear in our mind.

If we often think of compassion, then it will be my last thoughts. If we do not, or think about anything clearly, what happens then close the door of death will appear in our mind. Hearing is the last sense to go. So to help people who are dying, we should tell them about the good deeds they have done.

The nice thing that can lead them to a better rebirth. There are no such things, all thoughts are jumbled up, and anything can happen. May thanks, take risks.

All of us have to go through hours of agony, then why not prepare for them. We need to be prepared for that moment. Prepare yourself for the departure of the train by the habit to think wisely. I will be reborn wisely. When we keep the commandments year, no habit of transgression, we will be born again as people. Most of us have moments of neglect, not in the hold, but make a habit of transgression would regenerate back to life very difficult.

There are stories that one day the Buddha went with his disciples along the coast, and he said to them: "Behold disciples, if blind turtle swimming through a sea of ​​cosmic and floating logs. Turtle Blind breathing air only emerge once every hundred years, the disciples thought that the turtle can not bumped into logs? ". The disciple replied: "No way, sir.

We can not be in the same place for a period of time, if they swim around the sea and the universe. "Buddha says:" Do not. It is not impossible. Which is very hard to be like that. "Then he continued:" Also, the opportunity to be reborn as a human and as difficult as that. "It is something we have to think about what we should do when we was lucky to be born again as people. Otherwise, it is impossible to make a return.

We are not only to be reborn as humans - is a lucky thing too - but we have full limbs, senses. I have enough food to live, good enough health to meditating. We are also very fortunate to know French. We can say that we are at the peak compared to many others, if you do not see it as a privilege, we can hardly understand how to do all of his career. It is not only an opportunity, an advantage for us that there is a duty as well. We must use this life reborn so useful.

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It should be noted that we are reborn every moment . Very few people have enough awareness or attention to feel all that. But we have to realize we are reborn every morning. That is not difficult. Date has passed, the night. Body mind is "dead" tired, I fell asleep. In the morning I feel revitalized when awake. I became light again.

The mind and body fresh, youthful, we had a day before to how best to use, as it is a new life. Use it every morning looking like a revival, then we can understand only one day exist. We can also create the habit of using maximum daily growth - spiritual development, spiritual, emotional. It does not mean as much as the whirring into.

The rebirth is seen in that respect is more useful to think of the afterlife. What will happen to us in the afterlife, totally depending on what we're doing now, so the only "current" new matter. "Now" is human, life after the results. It is also important to think about your sit've done in previous lives.

That is gone. I can not remember the past lives is also a good thing. We have suffered enough in this life, do revive the old pain in their past lives. A soul is still suffering with the unsatisfactoriness of this life, how have the endurance of pain doubled.

The revival every morning is enough to give us the feeling urgency, an indispensable element in the spiritual life. Urgency arises when we know who is really suffering. Urgency compulsion to get started right up, and can not wait anymore.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY THICH CHAN TANH.MHDT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUNS=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY=5/5/2013.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).