Death.

 

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. We can not be absolutely assured that the elderly and young people will die before remained 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 us unexpectedly. 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 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. We need to go into practice right away to death even though there are any, soon, we will be ready.

 

When death comes, nothing can stop it. Whatever type of body you have, whether you can impervious to any, disease, death will surely come down. If we reflect on the life of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas 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. For rulers and political leaders are too. Biographies of living that are almost as they were still alive. When our pilgrimage India, we see places like the University of Nalanda Monastery, a place of great masters such as Nagarjuna and Asanga was learning and teaching. Today the ruins of Nalanda. When looking for the remnants of the great figures 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 like each other separated by wind blown leaves. In 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. Then, only the penetrating spiritual was helpful for us.

 

No one born after that more and more away from death. Instead, each day we get closer to death, like cattle being led to slaughter. Like the cowboys beat their cows and led them to the barn, we also tortured by the sufferings of birth, old age, sickness and death, always close to the end of our lives. Everything in the universe is subject to impermanence and will eventually disintegrate. As the Dalai Lama said Saturday, the youth looked very strong and healthy but died young teachers are actually teaching us about impermanence. Of all the people we know or see, no one will be alive in a hundred years. Death can not be pushed back by mantra or by seeking refuge in a gifted 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: 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 (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 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 that understanding 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 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 start to make your life meaningful. You can tell 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 are caught by the feeling that he is not subject to death, then we will never serious in his practice, and never progress on the spiritual path. 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. To take the lazy bunch before hand, you will lack the impulse to try and practice, and you will be besieged exhaustion. You will be tied to fame, wealth and success. When thinking too much about this life, we tend to work for what you love - the relatives and friends of us - and our efforts to please them. Then when someone doing harm to them, we immediately paralyzed these people are his enemies. In this way the delusion as desire and hatred progressive flooding as a river in the summer. Naturally, this makes the misguided infatuation we act in everything negative that their results would be revitalization of the lower forms of life and death in the future.

 

 

 

Due to the small accumulation of merit, we have a precious human life. Any merit does exist will also 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 the accumulation of his merits, then sooner or later we will be immersed in a life after suffering even more formidable.

 

It is said that without a proper awareness of death, we will die in the suppression of fear and regret. Emotion that can take 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 unexpected and not entirely ready. The practice of Buddhism is not advised us not to know about the unfortunate 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.

 

Some people commented that Buddhist practice seems to emphasize the suffering and pessimistic nature. I think this is wrong. Buddhist practice really trying to get us a perpetual peace - it is impossible to infer a mind floating normal - and eradicate the suffering once and for all. 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. It's like experiencing death on a 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. None of us are anticipating 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 certainly feel that 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 and the general uncertainty of the hour 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. Thus, the work for the long term benefit of yourself and others will seem more important, and your life will be led by that perception. As Milarepa said, because sooner or later you have 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. There are a few exceptions, but after sixty or seventy years, 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, the only thing that might help is compassion and scrutinizes the nature of reality that we have reached. On the field, examines 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 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 info. The first moments of consciousness 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). Can only believe that the first moments of consciousness in this life does not come from something other than a previous life.

 

Although the physical body may act as a contributory cause of the subtle mental change, but it can not be the primary cause. Matter is never transformed into consciousness, and consciousness can not transform into matter. Therefore, the mind must come from the mind. The consciousness of this present life comes from previous life and consciousness is the cause of consciousness in later life. When you reflect on death and often aware of it, your life will become more meaningful.

 

Check out the great disadvantage of the substantive grasp of our energy on the permanent, we must resist it and intensely mindful of death will be motivated to practice French more serious approach again. He Tsong-kha-pa (Tsongkhapa) 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.

 

The awareness of death that we must nurture is not the usual fear, helplessness about being separated from loved ones and our property. More correctly, we must learn to fear that I will die before they cease to be the cause of rebirth in the lower realms of samsara and will die without accumulation of causes and conditions necessary for the favorable rebirth in the future. If we do not fulfill this dual purpose, then at death, we will be oppressed by fear and regret it terribly. If we spend all of his life absorbed in evil actions arising from the hatred and desire, we not only create a temporary calamity, but also long-term. That's because we accumulate and storing a huge amount of causes and conditions (coast) for our own sink in the next life. The fear of that will provoke us to make every day of my life 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 is the purpose of meditation 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 remorse.

 

He Tsong-kha-pa says that when our meditation on impermanence becomes very firmly and solidly, anything we encounter will teach us about impermanence. He said go to the death process begins right from the moment of conception, and in life, our lives often racked with disease and senile. When he was healthy and full of life, we should not be fooled to think that he would not die. We should not forget the fun in that while we were healthy, it is best to prepare for my future fate. For example, people who are falling from a very high cliff would not happily do before they hit the ground.

 

Even if we live, there is very little time to practice French. Although we can assert that its longevity, perhaps a hundred years, but we never compromise the impression that we will have time to practice later France. We 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. As the Scriptures say, people spend half his life in sleep, losing ten years when I was younger and twenty years old when we, and somewhere between the time tormented by anxiety, sadness, pain suffering and disappointment, so hard to have time to practice for the 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 later, and it took ten years to think about missed chances as how to practice Dharma. "

 

When I was a kid, nothing worth mentioning. At about fourteen or fifteen years old, I began a serious interest in France. Then the Chinese came, and I took years of political turmoil everything. I went to China and visited India in 1956. Then I returned to Tibet and to take a little extra time in politics. 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, I have lived in exile for more than thirty years, and although there is a little learning and practice, the majority of my life has been wasted lazily not benefit much. But not so much that I 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. Time to practice Dharma does 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 cause little to survive. Moreover, what we often see is to strengthen life, such as food and medicine, could become the cause of death. Today, 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 it's too old, you feel like banishment from society. This is the essence of our existence. If the damage is something external impact, then you can in one way or another way to dodge it, you can get under the surface or diving deep in the ocean. But when the threat comes from within, you can not do anything. While we are free from the morbid and difficult, and we 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 sickness, death, depression and fear - that is, a state of liberation and full location.

 

Richest people in the world can not bring a single possession he died. He Tsong-kha-pa says that if we have to leave behind this body, is something that we are very close, as are their own and one by accompanying him from birth as old friends least, they do not have to leave the matter of material possessions. 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 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.

 

You should try to imagine a situation in which you are sick. Imagine that you are mortally ill health and whole body is gone, you feel exhausted, and even medication did not help either. By the time the doctor will say dying in two ways: with the patient, 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. "By 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. You'll really 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. You will have to leave the closest friends seemed to take new life you meet them. 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 all, and this will be the end of your breathing. That marked 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 a great effort to foster a virtuous state (peace) in mind. If we can develop compassion extremely powerful and energetic at the time of death, there is hope that in the next life we ​​will be reborn in a favorable life. In general, familiarity plays a key role in this. When a patient is dying, the dying person to feel desire or resentment is unfortunate. At least, the patient should see pictures of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas that they can get out of him, trying to develop strong faith of his place, and died in a good mood. If this can not be done, it is vital that carers and relatives do not be confused dying. At that time, a very intense emotions like lust or resentment can lead to people dying a horrible state of pain and totally 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. I met some people who are very sick, they recounted 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 would shout, 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. The guys know that dying people dying loved it.

 

When people who've absorbed most of his life in evil deeds he died, we know that the warmth of the tan body septic starting torso down heart. For practitioners, the virtues vanish heat process starts from the bottom, from the feet, and finally up to the heart. In any case, the mind is really depart from the heart.

 

After death, people go to the intermediate state, the bardo. The body in the intermediate state has several unique characteristics: all senses are full, and it has a physical form is identical to the current form of which it will be reborn. For example, if it is reborn as a human being, it will have an identical physical appearance a man. If it is an animal rebirth, it will have the appearance of an animal physical characteristics. Intermediate state has a strong vision so that he can see through solid objects and have the ability to travel anywhere without any problems. Intermediate state can only see the intermediate class. For example, if an intermediate state is to be reborn as a human being, it only sees the intermediate state was set to be reborn as a human. The intermediate state of the heavens go upward, look upward, and the intermediate state of human beings go straight and look straight. The intermediate state of those who passionately in the evil act and be reborn in the lower realms, we are known to move downward.

 

Period in the intermediate state is seven days. After one week, if the intermediate state met the appropriate circumstances, it will be reborn in the realm of samsara, respectively. If it is not met, it 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 a show of more intermediate state and rebirth to whether it wants to or not. When it comes time to regenerate, intermediate can see the same type as it does fly, and it will develop a desire to joining them. The birth of the parents of the future, sperm and egg, it looks different. Although parents can not actually sleep together, there will be intermediate to the illusion that they are doing it and will feel involved with them. If the intermediate state can do to a baby girl was born, it will feel hated mother and was fascinated by bondage, it will attempt to sleep with the father. If possible intermediate born as a boy, it will show that hate father and mother bound to try to sleep with her. Being motivated by the desire like that, it goes wherever parents. Then, no part of the parent body appear before the intermediate state that unless the genitals, it felt so frustrated and angry. Anger is a condition that (coast) to his death from the intermediate state, and it is reborn in the womb. When parents copulating and achieve extreme pleasure, one or two drops of concentrated semen and eggs mixed together like cream on milk boiling surface layer. At this time, the intermediate state of consciousness ceased and go into the mixture. This entry marks the pregnancy. Although parents may not intercourse, intermediate illusion that they are working and where it will go next. This implies that there are cases, though parents can not have sex, but the mind can still go into the physical factors. This explains for the child born from a test tube today, when the essence is gathered from parents, and mixed in a test tube keeping the mind can go in that compound intercourse should not really happen.

 

Shantideva said that even the animals and activities to experience pleasure and avoid pain in this life. We must direct our attention to the future, if not, we will be no different from animals. The awareness of death is the foundation of the entire path. Unless you develop this awareness, otherwise all other practices will be obstacles. France is the leading scouting we go through the unknown territory; French food nourishes us in the journey; France's captain will take us to strange shores of Nirvana. So, take all the capacity of body, speech and mind into Dharma practice. Talking about the meditation on death and impermanence is easy, but actually practice it is very difficult 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. We can recognize some changes in perspective, in perception, in body and mind, in our response to this practice. Itself is a source of support, encouragement great: it actually gives us hope, because it only shows if the efforts we will be able to progress further. Became discouraged and decided to postpone our practice to a more favorable time is actually very dangerous. END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNMAESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.20/3/2014.NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).