DEATHHH.Dalai Lama 14
Buddha said that in all the different seasons to plow, fall is the best season, in all types of fuel to burn, the cow manure is best, and in all different kind of awareness , the awareness of impermanence and death, the most effective.
Death is certain, but when it struck the uncertainty. If we are really dealing with the matter, we do not know what will come first - tomorrow or death. We can not absolutely assert that older people and people will die before the child is left behind.
The most realistic attitude that we can nurture hope the best but preparing the worst. If the worst does not happen, then everything is fine, but if it happens, it will not attack us unexpectedly.
This also applies to the practice of French: Preparing for the worst because none of us know when you die. Every day we heard about the death of newspapers or the death of a friend of someone that we know carry trays, or of a loved one. Sometimes we feel lost, sometimes we almost happy, but somehow, we're still clinging to the idea that it would not happen to us.
We think they are exempt for the impermanence, and so we delay the spiritual practice (it can prepare us to death), and for that we will have time in the future Hybrid. When the moment happens to the inevitable, the only thing we have to take is faith regret. We need to put into practice immediately to even early death to any, we will be ready.
When death comes, nothing can prevent it. Whatever body type you have, whether you can impassive to disease, whatever you, death will surely descend. If we reflect on the life of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the past but now he is just a memory. The great Indian guru as he Nagarjuna (Nagarjuna) and Asanga (Asanga) has made great contributions to France and work for the benefit of sentient beings, but now all that remains of the he just names. For rulers and political leaders are the same.
Biography of the life that they are still alive almost. When our pilgrimage India, we see places like the Great Monastery of Nalanda, where the great masters such as Nagarjuna and Asanga was learning and teaching. Today, Nalanda was ruined. When looking at the marks left by the great figure in history, landscape ruins indicates that the nature of impermanence.
As the language of ancient Buddha said, even if we get under the ground or into the sea or in space, we will never avoid death. Those in the family sooner or later we will hit the leaves separated from each other as the wind blew. In two months, some of us will die, and others will die in few years.
In the eighty or ninety years, all of us, including the Dalai Lama dies. Then, only the understanding of our spirituality is helpful to us. No one born after that more and more away from death. Instead, each day we came closer to death, like cattle being led to slaughter. Like the battered beef cattle and lead them to their cages, we also tortured by the pains of birth, old age, sickness and death, always close to the end of our life. Everything in the universe depend on impermanence and will eventually dissolve.
As the Dalai Lama said Saturday, the youth looked very strong and energetic, but died young teacher is actually teaching us about impermanence. Of all the people we know or see, will no longer live in a hundred years. Death can not be pushed back by the secret mantra or by seeking refuge in a talented political leader. Over the years of my life, I have met so many people. Now they are only shadows in my memory.
Today I met more new people. It's like watching a play: after you pay your character, people and change clothes again. If we spend your short life under the influence of attachment and hatred, if for the sake of the short life that we grow their delusions, the relationship we create disaster work will be very long, because it destroys the prospects achievement of the ultimate happiness of us. If sometimes we are not successful in worldly matters trivial, it is not very important, but if we are wasting precious chance to get through this life, then we ourselves will be deep moral in the long run.
The future in our hands - whether we want to go through extreme pain due to fall in the non-human realms of samsara, or we want to achieve higher forms of regeneration, or we want to achieve state enlightenment. Shantideva said that in this life we have the opportunity and responsibility, have the ability to choose and decide the future of our life will be like.
We should cultivate his mind so life will not be wasted - do not waste even a month or a day - and be prepared when death comes. If we can foster the understanding that the motivation for spiritual practice will arise - it is the most powerful force. Geshe Sharawa (1070-1141) said that his best teacher is the meditation on impermanence.
Sakyamuni Buddha taught in his first teaching that the foundation of the suffering is impermanent. When faced with death, the foremost practitioner will rejoice, the average practitioner will be better prepared, and even the best practitioner of the lower base will have nothing to regret. When we go to the last day of his life, the most important thing is not even a torment of regret, or negative things that we experience when dying can affect regeneration plans Our next.
The best way to make meaningful life is to live the way of compassion. If you think about death and impermanence, you will begin to make your life meaningful. You may think that because sooner or later you must die, do not try to think of death at this time, because it only leads to despair and anxiety. But the awareness of death and impermanence can have great benefit. If our minds caught by the impression that he is not being subjected to death, then we will never serious about his practice and never progress on the spiritual path.
The trust that you will not die as the biggest obstacle to your spiritual progress, you will not remember to France, you will not follow the French, although you can remember it, and you will not follow France wholeheartedly, although you can observe it at a certain level. If you do not meditate on death, you will never care practice seriously. To take the lazy bunch before hand, you will lack momentum and try to exercise, and you'll be miserable exhaustion fins. You will be tied into fame, wealth and success. When thinking too much about this life, we tend to work for what I love - the relatives and friends of us - and our efforts to please them. Then when people do harm to them, we have fallen away who are his enemies.
In this way the delusions like desire and hatred to advance as a river flooded in summer. Naturally, these delusions makes us passionate in everything that the negative consequences of them will be reborn in the lower forms of life and death in the future. Because of the small accumulation of merit, we have a precious human life. Any merit to exist as well as express some degree of relative success in this life.
So little capital that we will be consumed away, and if we do not accumulate merit any, like all our savings targets without new money deposited into. If we deplete the accumulation of his merits, then sooner or later we will be immersed in a life after suffering still more formidable.
It is said that without a proper awareness of death, we will die in the oppression of fear and regret. Emotions that can lead us into the lower realms. Many people avoid referring to the death. They avoid thinking about the worst thing, so when it actually happened to them was completely unexpected and not ready. The Buddhist practice is not advised us not to know about the unfortunate and to understand and deal with them, preparing them right from the start. Thus, when we actually experience pain, then it is not something absolutely not tolerate.
Just avoid a problem will not solve it but actually could make matters worse. Some people commented that Buddhist practice seems to emphasize the suffering and the nature pessimistic. I think this is wrong. Buddhist practice is really us trying to get a permanent peace - is not known to infer a normal mind
- And eliminate the suffering once and for ever. The Buddhists are not satisfied with success only in this life or prospects of success in the next life, but instead, they seek an ultimate happiness. Because pain is a reality so fundamental point of Buddhism that would not solve the problem if we just avoid it through tangerine. It should do is to face suffering, look at it and analyze, survey it, determine its cause and find the best way to deal with it. Those who avoid thinking about misfortune actually it was attacked, they were not prepared and will suffer more than those who have made themselves familiar with the suffering, their origin and how they arise.
A practitioner of the French think about death every day, reflect on the suffering of human beings, the suffering of birth, the suffering of the old, the suffering of sickness and suffering of death. Each day, the tantric yogi experiences the death of the visualization. It's like experiencing death on a mind once a day. So familiar with it, they're ready to actually meet death. If you must go through a very dangerous area and frightening, you should learn about the dangers and how to behave with them before. No predictable about them is foolish. Whether or not you also have to go there, so it is best prepared to learn how to behave when difficulties occur. If you have a perfect awareness of death, you will feel sure that you are going to die one day recently. So if you discover that he is going to die today or tomorrow, thanks to the spiritual practice, you will automatically attempt to remove himself from the object bound with how to dispose things as property and all worldly success does not have any nature or meaning.
Benefit of the awareness of death is that it makes life meaningful and feel happy because the hour of death approached, you would die without any regrets. When you reflect on the certainty of death in general and the uncertainty of time of death, you will make every effort to prepare for the future. You will realize that the success and activities of this life and in nature is not important. Thus, working for long-term benefit of yourself and others will seem more important, and your life will be guided by that knowledge. As Germany Milarepa said, because sooner or later you have to leave everything behind, then why not abandon it now?
Despite our efforts, including the use of medication or the ceremony celebrating the long life, no one can promise to live more than a hundred years. There are a few exceptions, but after sixty or seventy years, most people reading this book would not be alive. After a hundred years, people will think of our time just as a part of history. When death comes, the only thing that may help is the compassion and understanding about the nature of reality that we have reached. On this area, exploring whether there is a life after death or not is very important.
The past and future life exists because of the following reasons. The type of thinking that since last year, from years before, and even from childhood can be recalled at this time. This clearly shows that only one knew existed before I know now. The first moments of consciousness in this life not arise without a cause, is not born of anything permanent or senseless. A moment of mind is something in the morning and knowing. So what is before it must be something in the morning and knowing, a moment ago of the mind (cash concept). Can only believe that the first moments of consciousness in this life from nothing else than a lifetime ago.
Although the physical body can act as a secondary cause of subtle changes in the mind, but it can not be the main cause. Matter is never transformed into consciousness, and consciousness can not be converted into matter. So, the mind must come from the mind. The mind of this present life from the mind of his past life and the cause of the mind in the next life. When you reflect on death and often aware of it, your life becomes meaningful. Identify the major disadvantages of taking grasping how our instincts to the permanent, we must resist it and intensely aware of the death will be motivated to practice French more serious care more. Tsong-kha-pa says that the importance of awareness of death is not limited in the initial stage.
It is important throughout all stages of the path; it is important at the beginning, the middle stage and late stage. Awareness of death that we have raised fears not normal, powerless to separation of loved ones and our property. More properly, we must study fear that I will die before they end the causes of rebirth in the lower realms of samsara and will die without the accumulation of causes and conditions necessary for the favorable rebirth in the future. If we do not fulfill these two purposes, then at death, we will be oppressed by fear and regret terribly.
If we spend all of his life absorbed in the evil actions arising from the hatred and desire, then we cause disaster not only temporary but also long. That's because we accumulate and store a huge amount of the causes and conditions (grace) to blackmail us for our own future lives. Fear it would incite us to make every day in your life into something meaningful. When there has been a wake of death, we will see success and things of this life is not important, and will work for a better future. That is the purpose of the meditation on death. Now, if we fear death, we will attempt to find a way to win fear and regret his death.
But now, if we just avoid the fear of death, when death, we will be tied by so regretful. Tsong-kha-pa says that when we meditate on impermanence becomes very firm and solid, then everything we encounter will teach us about impermanence. He said go to the death process begins immediately after conception, and in life, our lives often are abused by disease and old age. When he was healthy and full of life, we should not be fooled to think that he will not die.
We should not be forgotten in the joy when we are healthy; it is best to prepare for the future of our fate. For example, people are falling from a high rocky it will happily do before they touch the ground. Even if we live, there is little time to practice French. Although we can affirm that his longevity, perhaps a hundred years, but we should never compromise the impression that we will have time to practice Dharma later. We should not be dominated by the time fire, it is a lazy form of calculation.
Half life consumed in the sleep loss, and most of the rest of us were wandering by the activities of the world. As we age, physical strength and mental decline, and although we may wish to practice, but it was too late because we will not have the capacity to practice Dharma. As a Kinh said, who spends half his life in sleep, loss of ten years when I was young and when twenty years old, and the time in between is tormented by anxiety, sadness, pain suffering and despair, so hardly any time to practice French. If we live a life of sixty years and think about all the time I spent as a child, all the time to sleep, and the time when we are too old, then we will realize that only about five year so that we can offer himself for the extra practice in Buddhism.
If we do not take a careful attempt to practice the Dhamma, but lived like we live life, then certainly I spend my life in laziness is not the purpose. Gung-thang Rinpoche said, is part of the heart: "It took me twenty years of not thinking about the practice of France, and then took twenty years to think about will practice later, and then take ten years to think missed the chance to practice French like. "When I was a kid, nothing worth mentioning. At about fourteen or fifteen, I became interested in a decent way to France. Then the Chinese came, and I take everything in the political turmoil.
I went to China and visited India in 1956. Then I returned to Tibet and it takes a little time in politics. The best I can recall is my contest Geshe degree (the highest academic degree in the University of Tibetan monasteries), then I have to leave her homeland. Now, I have lived in exile for over thirty years, and although there is a little learning and practice, most of my life wasted a lazy way not benefit much. However I regret that I did not practice that.
If I think about the practical aspects of Du Gia ultimate Tantra, there are certain aspects of the path I can not practice because of the structure of my body began to decline with age. Time to practice the French do not come naturally but must be arranged with intent. If you must depart on a long journey, then at some point, need to do the preparation. As I like to say, we should use fifty percent of the time and energy to those concerns after his death, and about fifty percent to the work of this life.
There are many causes of death and very little reason to survive. Moreover, what we usually see is to strengthen life, like food and medicine, could become the cause of death. Today, many illnesses are attributed by the diet of us. These chemicals often help to grow crops and animal husbandry has contributed to health weakened, causing imbalance in the body. My people too sensitive, so delicate that if it is too fat, you have everything the problem: you can not walk straight, high blood pressure, and can you become a burden.
Conversely, if you're too thin, you are less healthy or stamina, it lead to anything other afflictions. When you're young, you're worried not to mention among adults, and when too old, you feel like banishment from society. This is the essence of our existence. If the relationship is something harms and impact from the outside, then you can in one way or another way to avoid it; you can get under the ground or diving deep in the ocean. But when the threat comes from within, you can not do anything. While we were free for the sick and difficult, and we have a healthy body, we must take advantage of that and draw its essence. Drawing is the essence (nature) of life is the effort to achieve a state of complete freedom from disease, death, depression and fear - that is, a state of liberation and full location.
The richest in the world can not bring a single possession when killed. Tsong-kha-pa says that if we must leave behind this body, is something we are very close, as their own and each is a journey with us from birth like old friends least, they do not have something to give back the material wealth. Most people spend too much energy and time just to try to get a little success and happiness in this life. But at death, all of our worldly activities, such as the care of relatives and friends, and compete with rivals, had to leave unfinished.
Although you can have enough food to get in a hundred years, at death you will be hungry, and although you can have enough clothes to wear in a hundred years, but when they die you will be naked. When death attack, there is no difference between the death of a king, leaving behind his kingdom, and the death of a beggar, left stick. You should try to imagine a situation in which you are sick. Imagine that you are seriously ill and all physical health was gone; you feel exhausted, and even medication does not help either. By dying the doctor will say in two ways: with patients, he said: "Do not worry, you will get better.
Nothing to worry, just recuperate. "With his family, said:" The situation is very serious. You should arrange for the celebration of the last rites. "At that time you will not have the opportunity to complete any unfinished work or to complete your research. When is it, your body will make you weak movements difficult. Then the body heat from dispersing and you feel yourself becoming stiff, like a piece of tree fall on your bed. You will really start to see your own corpse.
Your last words whispered and embroidery around the strenuous to understand what you say. Final food you eat is not a delicious meal that is a handful of drugs that you will not have the strength to swallow. You will have to leave the closest friends, it seems to take a new life you meet them. Your breathing changes and becomes more noisy. Gradually it becomes abnormal, breath in breath out faster, faster. Finally, there will be a very strong breath after all, and this will be the end of your breathing. It marks the death as often as such. Then your name, a name that has brought joy to friends and family when they heard it, will be added to a word "incidents" in front of it.
It is critical to the dying, care should be in a good state. It is the last chance we have, and is a chance not to be ignored. Although we can live a very bad life, but in dying we should make a great effort to cultivate a moral status (peace) in mind. If we can develop compassion is very powerful and full capacity at death, there is hope that in the next life we will be reborn in a convenient life. In general, familiarity plays an important role in this. When a patient is dying, the dying person to feel desire or resentment is unfortunate.
At least, the patient should see the images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas that they can get out of him, trying to develop a strong faith of his place, and died in a good mood. If this is impossible, it is vital that carers and relatives not to upset the dying person. At that time, a very intense emotions such as lust or anger can lead to people dying a terrible state of suffering and completely capable of going to a rebirth in lower realms. As death approached, the signs that bode only the future can appear.
Those who have good minds will find that they are going from dark to light place or go into place clear. They will feel happy, to see beautiful things, and will not feel any deep grief when they die. If dying people have very strong feelings of desire or hatred, they will see hallucinations and everything will feel terribly sad.
Some people find as they are entering the dark, others feel they are being burned. I've met some who are very sick, they recounted that when ill, they found themselves burned. This is a manifestation that the fate of their future. Because of such signs, the dying will feel very embarrassed, and would yell, whine, as if the whole body that is being drawn down.
They will suffer deeply dying. An ultimate, these events comes from clinging to self. The dying know that people who are dying to love it. When those who have absorbed much of his evil deeds in his death, we are known to damage the process of melting warmth of his body began to go down the body on the heart. For practitioners, the virtuous process heat began to disappear from the bottom, from the feet, and finally to the heart. In any case, the mind is actually depart from the heart. After death, people go into the intermediate state, the bardo. T
pleased to be in the intermediate state has some unique features:
All the senses are full, and it has a physical appearance is identical to the appearance of which it will be reborn. For example, if it is reborn as a human being, it will have an identical physical appearance a person. If it is an animal rebirth, it will have the physical appearance of the particular animal. Intermediate state has a strong vision to the point that can see through solid objects and be able to travel anywhere without hesitation. Bardo can only see the intermediate class. For example, if a fixed intermediate state is reborn as a person, it's just seeing the intermediate state has to be reborn as humans. The intermediate state of the heavens go upward, looking upwards high, and the intermediate realm of straight and look straight.
The intermediate state of those who were passionately in the evil act and be reborn in the lower realms, we are known to move downwards. Period in the intermediate state is seven days. After one week, if the intermediate state having the proper circumstances, it will be reborn in the realm of samsara, respectively. If it is not met will die a small death and appeared again as an intermediate.
This may appear seven times, but after forty-nine days, it can not exist as of the intermediate state to be reborn again and whether it wishes to or not. When the time for regeneration, intermediate view of the same type as it can fly, and it will develop a desire to enter with them four.
The nature of the birth parents' future, sperm and egg, it looks different. Although parents can not actually sleep together, will have intermediate illusion that they're doing it and will feel attached to them. If the intermediate state can make a girls life, it will feel aversion mother and fascinated by bondage, it will attempt to sleep with her father.
If the intermediate state can be born as a boy, it will be seen that jealousy father tied to the mother and tried to sleep with his mother. Prompted by the desire like that, they follow their parents anywhere. Then, without any part of the parent body appear before except that intermediate genitals, so it frustrated and angry.
Anger that conditions (grace) to its death from the intermediate state, and its rebirth in the womb. When parents are sex and reach orgasm extreme, one or two drops of concentrated sperm and eggs mixed together like ice cream on the surface layer of boiled milk. At this intermediate state of consciousness ceased and she went to the mixture.
It marks the entry thai. Although parents can not have sex, have intermediate illusion that they're working on it and will go to that place. This implies that there are cases, though parents can not have sex, but the mind can go into the physical elements. This explains to the children born from test tubes today, when the extract is collected from parents of mixed and preserve in a test tube, the mind can come to compounds that no sexual intercourse actually occurred.
Shantideva said that even if the animal is enabled to experience pleasure and avoid suffering in this life. We must direct our attention to the future and if not, we are no different from animals. Awareness of death is the foundation of the entire path. Unless you develop this awareness, otherwise all the other practical obstacles. France is the Scout to lead us through the unknown territory; French food nourish our journey;
France is the captain will take us to unfamiliar landing shore of Nirvana. So, take all the power of body, speech and mind in Dharma practice. Speaking of meditation on death and impermanence is very easy, but the actual practice is very difficult results. And when we practice, sometimes we do not see much change, especially if we only compare yesterday and today.
That is a danger to our easy to lose hope and become faint-hearted. In situations like this, very beneficial when we do not compare each day or every week, but rather, try to compare the current state of our mind with the mood of five years or ten years ago; so we will found that there were a few changes.
We can identify some changes in attitudes, perceptions, in body and mind, in our response to these practices. Itself is a source of support, a great encouragement; it really gives us hope, because it indicates that if we attempt it will be able to progress further. Become discouragement and delay the decision of our practice to a more favorable time is really very dangerous.END= VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY BACH LIEN HOA.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).21/12/2011.
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