Buddha has said that in all the different seasons for plowing, autumn is the best season, in all types of fuel to burn, manure is best, and in all the different types of awareness , the awareness of impermanence and death, the most effective.
Death is certain, but when it comes down the uncertainty. If we really cope with the work, we do not know what will come first - tomorrow or death. they're not able to complete Full asserts that the elderly and people will die before the child is left behind.
Attitude fact that we can nurture hope the best but prepare worst. If the worst does not happen, then everything is fine, but if it happens, it will not attack of us by surprise.
This also applies to the practice of France: prepare for the worst because none of us know when to die. Every day we learn about the death of newspapers or the death of a friend, of someone who vaguely knew, or of a loved one. Sometimes we feel lost, sometimes we almost as happy, but somehow, we're still clinging to the idea that it will not happen to me.
We think they are exempt from the impermanent, and therefore we delay the spiritual practice (it can prepare us to die), and for that we will have time in the future hybrid. When the inevitable moment happens next, the only thing we have to take away the joy regret. should we go into practice immediately to whether to early death matter how we It also will be available.
When death comes, nothing can stop it. Whatever type of body you have, whether you can impervious to any, disease, death certainly come down. If we reflect on life of monks and Buddhist Bodhisattva in the past, but now he is just a memory. The great Indian masters such as 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.
Biographies of living that are almost as they were still alive. Pilgrims When we go India, we see places like the University of Nalanda Monastery, where the masters are great as Nagarjuna and Asanga was great learning and teaching. Nalanda ruins today. When looking at the traces left by the character great era in history, ruins scene just shows the nature of impermanence.
As the ancient spokesman said, even if we get under ground or go into the ocean or into space, we will never escape from death. The person in the family sooner or later we will split apart like leaves each wind gets released . During the next two months, some of us will die, and others will die in a few years.
In eighty or ninety years, all of us, including the Dalai Lama will die. When there is only penetrated the psychic was helpful for us. Nobody born after that as time as far from death. Instead, each day we get closer to death, like cattle being led to slaughter. Much like the cowboys beat their cows and take them to the barn, we It is also being abused by the sufferings of birth, old age, sickness and death, always close to the end of our lives. Everything in this universe is dependent on impermanence and ultimately will be dissolved apart.
As the Dalai Lama said Saturday, the youth looked very strong and healthy but died young teachers are actually teaching us about impermanence. During all those we know or see, no one will live in a hundred years. Death can not be pushed back by mantra or by seeking refuge in any one gifted teacher. Through the years of my life, I have met so many people. Now they are only shadow in my memory.
Today I met more new people. It's like watching a play: play after play finished his generals, who had changed her clothes and reappear. If we spend our short life under the influence of attachment and hatred, if for the sake of the short life that we grow our delusions, the scourge we create long-term effects will be, because it destroys the prospects achievements ultimate happiness of us. If sometimes we do not succeed in worldly matters trivial, it is not very important, but if we waste precious chance to get through this life, then we ourselves will be damnation in the long run.
The future is in our hands - whether we want to go through the misery and suffering caused by the fall in non-human realms, or we want to achieve the higher forms of rebirth, or we want to achieve status enlightenment. Shantideva says 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 train your mind to your life will not be wasted - wasted not even a month or a day - and when death comes prepared. If we can foster the understanding that the motivation for spiritual practice will arise - it is the most powerful motivator. Geshe Sharawa (1070-1141) said that the best teacher is his meditation on impermanence.
Shakyamuni 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 well prepared, and even lower based practitioners will have nothing to regret. When we go to the last day of his life, the most important thing is not to have even a pang of regret , or negative things we experienced while dying might affect my next reincarnation.
The best way to make meaningful life is to live according to the way of compassion. If you think about death and impermanence, you will start to make your life meaningful. You can that because sooner or later you have to die, should not try to think about death at this time, because it will only make you discouraged and worried. , but the awareness of death and impermanence can have tremendous benefit. If our minds stuck by his feeling that not being dependent on death, then we will never serious in his practice, and never progress on the path spirituality.
The trust that you will not die is the greatest obstacle to your spiritual progress: you will not remember to France, you will not follow France although you can remember it, and you will not obey France wholeheartedly though you can adhere it to a certain extent. If you do not meditate on death, you will never practice very seriously. bear bouquet hand before laziness, you will lack of trying impulses to and in the practice, and you will be besieged exhaustion. would be tied to your fame, wealth and success. When thinking too much about this life, we tend to what works for her beloved - relatives and friends of us - and our efforts to please them. then when someone doing harm to them, we immediately listed these people as enemies her.
In this way, the confusion as desire and hatred progressive flooding as a river in the summer. Naturally, these delusions make us passionate in everything negative that climate action Our results will be reborn in the lower forms of life and death in the future. Due to the small accumulation of merit, we have a precious human life. certain merit Any existing well will manifest as some degree of relative success in this life.
So what little capital we will spend away, and if we do not accumulate merit any, we spent money like to spend no money on new posts. If we only deplete accumulation of his merits, then sooner or later we will be immersed in a life after suffering still more formidable.
was said that without a proper awareness of death, we will die in the suppression of fear and regret. emotions that can lead us into the lower realms. many people avoided death. they avoid thinking about the worst thing, so when it actually they happen to be a surprise and totally ready. practice Buddhism encourages us not to know not to unhappiness and to understand and face them, prepare for them right from the start. Thus, when we actually experience pain, it is not something completely insufferable.
Just dodge a problem will not solve it but can actually make the problem worse. Several people commented that Buddhist practice seems to emphasize the suffering and pessimistic nature. I that this is wrong. Buddhist Practice really trying to get us a perpetual peace - it is impossible to infer stand a normal mind - and eradicate the suffering once for forever. The Buddhists are not satisfied with success only in this life or the prospects of success in the next life, but instead, they seek an ultimate happiness. Because pain is a reality so fundamental perspective of Buddhism that will not solve the problem if we just avoid it through tangerine. That should do is to face suffering, look at it and analyze it surveys, identify its causes and find out the best way to deal with it.
Those who think that avoiding misfortune to actually get it attacks, and they are not prepared will suffer more than those who have acquainted themselves with the suffering, their origins and how they arise.
A practitioner of France every day to think about death, reflect on the human suffering, the suffering of birth, aging is suffering, the suffering of sickness, suffering and death. Each day, the Tantric practitioners death experience in the process of visualization. thing was like experiencing death in the face once daily consciousness. So familiar with it, they are ready to actually meet death. If you have to go through a very dangerous area and frightening, you should learn about the dangers and how to behave with them before. prognosis of us are not stupid foolish. Whether you like it or not you have to go there, so it's best to be prepared to know how to behave when difficulties occur. If you have a perfect awareness of death, you will feel make sure you are going to die some day.
Thus, if you discover that he was going to die today or tomorrow, thanks to the spiritual practice, you will endeavor to extricate himself from the bondage objects discarded by owning things and considered all worldly success as there are not any nature or meaning.
Benefits of mindfulness of death is that it makes life meaningful and joyful feel by the time of death approaching, you will die without any regrets. When you reflect on the certainty of death says general and the uncertainty of the time of death, you will make every effort to prepare themselves for the future. You will realize that the success and operation of this life insubstantial and unimportant. So work for the long term benefit of yourself and others will seem more important, and your life will be led by that perception. Milarepa As already said, by sooner or later you to leave everything behind, then why not abandon it now?
Despite all our efforts, including the use of drugs or the celebration of the feast of longevity, no one can promise to live more than a hundred years. Having a few exceptions, but after sixty or Seventy years from now, most people who read this book will not live. After a hundred years, people will think about our time just as a piece of history. When death comes, it can only help is compassion and scrutinizes the nature of reality that we have reached. Regarding this area, examines a life after death or not is very important. These life too Past and future exist for the following reasons.
The type of thinking that since last year, from last year too, and even from childhood can be recalled at this time. This clearly shows that only one known to have existed before the current known . the first conscious moment in this life is not arise without a cause, nor were born from something permanent or senseless. A moment of mind is something in the morning and perceiving. So what is there before it is something in the morning and perceiving, moments before the center is (cash concept). could only believe that the first moments of consciousness in this life does not come from something other than was a lifetime ago.
Although the physical body may act as a contributory cause of the transformation of mental health, but it can not be the primary cause. material never transformed into consciousness, and consciousness is not be transformed into matter. therefore, the mind must come from the mind. 's mind this current life comes from previous life and consciousness is the cause of consciousness in later life. When you reflect on the death and often aware of it, your life will become more meaningful. Realizing the huge disadvantage of clinging instinct taking our way into the permanent, we must resist it and province free security official death would be motivated to practice French more serious approach. Tsong-kha-pa He said that the importance of the awareness of death not only limited to the period starts.
It is important during all stages of the path, it is important at the beginning, in the middle stage and late stage. wake of the death that we must nurture fear is not normal , helplessness about being separated from loved ones and our property. Decency more, we have learned that our fears will die before they cease to be the cause of rebirth in the lower realms of Reincarnation and will die without accumulation of causes and conditions necessary for favorable rebirth in the future. If we do not fulfill this dual purpose, then at death, we will be suppressed by fear and grace terribly ill.
If we spend all of his life absorbed in evil actions arising from the hatred and desire, then we are causing natural disaster not only temporary but long. That's because we accumulate and storing a huge amount of causes and conditions (coast) for our own sink in the next life. fears about that will provoke us to make every day of their lives into something meaningful. When the wake of the death, we will see success and things of this life is not important, and will work for a better future. That the purpose of meditating on death. Now, if we fear death, we will endeavor to find a winning recipe for fear and regret his death.
And right now, if we just avoid the fear of death he died, we were tied by that grace grief. Tsong-kha-pa He said that when our meditation on impermanence becomes all power firmly and solidly, anything we encounter will teach us about impermanence. , he said that the process goes to the death begins from the moment of conception , and in life, our lives are often frequently racked with disease and senile. As healthy and full of life, we should not be fooled to think that he would not die.
should we not have fun in oblivion when we Okay, it is best to prepare for my future fate. , for example, people are falling from a very high cliff would not happily do before they hit the ground. Even if we live, there are little time to practice French. Though we can claim that their longevity, perhaps a hundred years, but we never compromise the impression that we will have time to practice later France . they should not be dominated by the time delay, it is a form of lazy properties.
Half the people on their life in the bedroom, and most of the remaining time we were wandering by the worldly activities. 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. 's right as a scripture says, people spend half his life in sleep, losing ten years when I was younger and twenty year when we old, and in between the time tormented by anxiety, sadness, pain and frustration, so hardly any time to practice French.
If we live a life sixty years and think about all the time we go through as a kid, all the time for sleeping, and the time when we are too old, then we will realize that only about five year so that we can dedicate themselves to the practice of Dharma serious approach. If we do not take a careful effort to practice Dharma, but just as we live life normally, then surely we spend our lives in the lazy unmotivated. Gung-thang Rinpoche said, somewhat cynical: "It took me twenty years of not thinking about the practice of France, and then took twenty years to think about going to practice after this, and it took ten years to think about missed chances as how to practice Dharma. " When I was a kid, nothing worth mentioning. Around the age of fourteen or fifteen, I began to properly center of France. then I lost a lot of time in the time fluctuations.
The best thing I can recall is my contest Geshe degree (the highest academic degree in the University of Tibetan monasteries), then I have to leave their homeland. Now, although there are a little study and practice, the majority of my life has been wasted lazily not benefit much. however that I do not regret that I did not practice.
If I think about the practical aspects of Tantra, the Supreme Yogacara there are certain aspects of the way I can not practice because of the structure of my body began to age and deterioration. practice time to France not come naturally but must be arranged intentionally. If you must depart on a long journey, then at some point, need to do the preparation. As I often like to say, we should use fifty percent of the time and energy to the concerns of his later life, and about fifty percent of life for this job.
There are many causes of death, and very few reasons to live longer. Moreover, what we often see is to strengthen life, such as food and medicine, could become the cause of the dead. Nowadays, many diseases are attributed by diet ours. These chemicals usually help grow crops and animal husbandry has contributed to weakening health and cause imbalance in the body. Body too sensitive, so delicate that if it is overweight problem you have everything, you can not walk straight, high blood pressure, and you can become a burden.
Conversely, if you are too skinny, you are less healthy or tolerance, it leads to other things afflictions. When you're young, you worry about not being included in a large number of people, and when the old you feel like banishment from society. This is the essence of our existence. If the damage is something external impact, then you can by dodging one way or another avoid it, you can get under the surface or diving deep in the ocean. , but when danger comes from within, you can not do anything. Whilst we are free from the morbid and difficult, and I have a healthy body, we must take advantage of that and draw its essence. drawn essence (nature) of life is an effort to achieve a state of perfect liberation from illness, death, depression and fear - that is, a state of liberation and omniscient.
Richest people in the world can not bring under a single possession he died. Tsong-kha-pa He said that if we have to leave behind this body, is something that we are very close, as their own and as a companion ever since I was born like most old friends, they do not have to leave the matter of material possessions. most people take too much energy and time just trying to get a little success and happiness in this life. , but at the time of death, all of our mundane activities, such as the care of relatives and friends, and compete with rivals, had to leave unfinished.
Although you can have enough food to use in a hundred years, at death you will suffer hunger, and even though you may have enough clothes to wear in a hundred years, but you will have to die naked. When death attack, there is no difference between the way a king's death, leaving behind his kingdom, and how the beggar died, leaving behind sticks. should you try to imagine a situation in which case you get sick. Imagine that you are mortally ill health and whole body is gone, you feel exhausted, and even medication did not help either. dying to doctor said by two ways. Patients with, he said: "Do not worry, you'll get better. Nothing to worry just recuperate. " With family, he said: "The situation is very serious. You should arrange to celebrate the last rites. "
At that time you will not have the opportunity to complete unfinished work or how to improve your research. When is it, your body will make you weak movements difficult. then the heat of the body slowly dispersed and you feel your body becomes stiff, like a piece of tree fall on your bed. actually you will start to see their own bodies.
The last words you hear whispered, and of those around strenuously to understand what you are saying. The last food you eat is not a good meal but a handful of drugs that you will not have the strength to swallow. leave you will have the closest friendship seemed to lose many lives you met them. way your breathing changes and becomes more noisy. Slowly it becomes abnormal breathing in and breathing out faster, faster. Finally, there is a very strong breath after the , and this will be the end of your breathing. thing that marks the death such as commonly understood. then your name, a name that has brought joy to friends and family when they listen to it, will be added to the word "try" in front of it.
It is critical to the dying, the mind must be in a good state. It is the last chance that we have, and that a chance should not be ignored. Although we can live a life so bad, but in dying should make an effort to great lengths to foster a virtuous state (peace) in mind. If we can develop a compassion is very strong and energetic at the time of death, there is hope that in the next life we will be reborn in a favorable life. Speaking generally , familiarity plays an important role in the this. When a patient is dying, the dying person to feel desire or resentment is unfortunate.
At least, the patient should see the Buddha image and the Bodhisattva that they can get out of him, trying to develop strong faith of his place, and died in a good mood. If This may not be the most important thing is people do not care and do your loved ones dying embarrassment. At that time, a very intense emotions like lust or resentment can lead to people dying a state of terrible suffering and fully capable of going into a rebirth in the lower realms. When approaching death, the only signs that bode future may appear.
People with good minds will see that they are going from darkness to light, or go to the place cleared. They will feel happy, seeing beautiful things, and will not feel any pain when they die profound. If dying people have very strong feelings of lust or hatred, then they will see hallucinations and everything will feel terribly sad.
Some people feel like they're going to be dark, others felt he was being burned. few people I've ever met are very sick, they recalled that when severe pain, they found themselves being burned. This is an indication for the fate of their future. Due to such signs, the dying will feel very confused, and will yell, whine, as if the whole body is seen being dragged down .
They will suffer profound dying. Ultimately, these events comes from clinging to the ego. dying person knows that guys love that people are dying there. When those who have contempt Grinding the majority of his life in evil deeds he died, we know the melting process can damage the body's warmth from the body begins to go down on the left heart . For practitioners, the virtues vanish heat process starts from the bottom, from the feet, and finally up to the left heart . In any case, the mind is actually departs from the left heart .
Shantideva said that even the animals and activities to experience pleasure and avoid pain in this life. direction we must turn our attention to the future, if not, we will be no different from the animals animals. awake The death is the foundation of the entire path. Unless you develop this awareness, otherwise all other practices will be obstacles. was scouting France lead us go through the unknown territory; French food nourishes us in the journey; France's captain will take us to the shores of Nirvana -table. So, take all the capacity of body, speech and mind into Dharma practice. Speaking of meditation on death and impermanence is easy, but actually practice it is extremely difficult to results . And when we practice, sometimes we can not see much change, especially if we only compare yesterday and today.
It is an easy danger we lose hope and become faint-hearted. In such situations, it is not beneficial when we compare each day or each week, but rather, trying to compare my current mood with the mood of the previous five years or ten years, so we will found that there were a few changes. Can we identify some changes in perspective, in perception, in body and mind, in our response to this practice. itself is a stream source of support, encouragement enormous, it really gives me hope, because it just shows the effort if we will be able to progress further. Becoming discouraged and decided to delay implementation our practice to a more favorable time is really dangerous ...END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.7/3/2014.NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).
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