DEATH DOES NOT LOSE ALL.

In the Buddha's time, there was an unhappy woman. When she gave birth to her first child, her husband died. Since then, all the love she has for her children. The only child is hope, happiness, she does not screen to anything but the child. When the baby grows up, about ten years old, she again receives the misfortune, the most loved child dies. She collapses and becomes insane. She hugged her son from the village to the back of the village, asking who could save her child from the resurrection, she willingly sacrificed all she had, including her life to live for I can not do anything.

According to Indian culture, powerful people have family members died, the dead body was left to day and night, then brought to burn. For ordinary people, dead bodies to spend a few hours in the house must be burned. But she abstained from the law, hugging her son for several days, because she was too distressed, want her son to be resurrected. 

A Buddhist told her:

"I know there is an enlightened being named Gotama, who lives a few miles away, and she will be there to help her to live up to her .

Hearing the words, she was happy to take the baby to meet the Sun. She just took the baby, the Exalted happy to save the baby and advice her as follows:

- You will be safe, I will make her children live again and she will be happy. However, she must accept my conditions.

She felt in her heart full of happiness, happy to tears to grow up crying: "my baby is about to be rescued.  The Sun said:

- You go to any family in the village has no relatives die, please give me a handful of mustard seeds to treat this baby is alive.

Hearing the Buddha taught a simple task, she exulted in her heart, put the baby next to the place where the Sun sat, she rushed through the village houses to ask for grape seeds as requested by the Sun. Where do you also ask to see if there are families who have not died or not. Wherever she heard them said, "my house is dead . " No family says they have never died. 

That day, from morning to evening, the word  "dead"  repeated in her ears. It was dark, but she could not find a family that had never died. She brought sad mood, less brain, returned to the Blessed One:

- The conditions that he gave, I can not do it. Because I have traveled all over the village, I can not find a family that has never died.

The Sun said:

- Because you do not understand that, death to humans as a rule. It comes sooner or later depending on the karma that he created in the past, plus the karmic effect in the present. You should not be sad anymore, but be happy to accept death. Because death is not lost everything.

Many people think that when the mother, father or lover dies he loses everything. To think that is not true. It can be said, it is a great loss, because that sacred spiritual affection has nothing to compensate. That loss is a rule, only that it takes time to suffer less, but in the moment, we need the support of the relatives that he left, then we suffer a lot. than. It can also be said that the loss is like losing a treasure, but not losing everything. I only lose everything when I lose my mind, but the wisdom is nothing to lose everything.

When reading the verse on the anniversary of worship, you should not say, light three incense tribute to him, grandmother, father, mother heart hurt. Now, grandfather, father, mother ... no more, our life becomes meaningless. Even if we say with all filial piety, but in the spirit of the Buddha, death does not mean to be lost. If the dead have left the property, at least we still have the inheritance. If we know to maintain and promote that property properly is that we are making pictures of relatives live forever in our hearts. Those who do it, the spirit of the dead will become immortal, and as life on this life.

Admittedly, those who have done great work for the world, sacrificing their lives for the social sake, are listed as a noble way of life. The relatives leave, too, we must keep their good deeds at birth to see that they live forever with us. Only the child will show the dead that death is not the end. Understanding that, we will not suffer when the person walking away, we know how to make suffering pain loss into the source of happiness. In addition, we have to make more merit, give offerings and then merit that virtue for the soul, to be a blessing account. I try to donate to the person who has lost the blessing, so that they make the bag, make the next life be happy.

 The danger is that near death, he started nostalgic nostalgia, career, fame, title, etc. regret what they have in life. Those who live superficially emotional, indifferent to life, easily overcome these feelings of regret. In a culture that promotes privacy, promoting individualism is often less happy in family life. Therefore, they are less entangled with emotions, regret when their loved ones die, but are caught up, bound to others as emotional as their reputation, status and assets.

Practitioners should not be subjective, that you will not be sentimental at the time of death. To use the practice of attaining the state of anattå, the non-self, ie, not dependent on anything, knowing that all is just temporary borrowing, at some point, we must break up with it. Those who think so, at the moment of death will surely go away in a gentle and relaxed way.

When the deceased wears a state of regret over fortune, the cause will be entangled in the process of rebirth. This regret does not bring happiness to oneself nor does it contribute to human and social benefits.

The Buddha said that when conditions permit, we should share the financial situation into four parts:

1. Expenses in daily life.

2. Make a backup for the aftermath, or spend money when encountering uncertainty.

3. To take care of children, parents and grandparents.

4. Do good deeds, share suffering with the unfortunate. 

If we use the right source of income for legitimate purposes, without wasting money, the blessing will be more and more great, sure that in addition to being enjoyed in the present, nurture our future blessings. The Chinese are still good business people everywhere, with abundant financial resources. When needed, they can build a temple with millions of dollars in a short time. Meanwhile, the construction of pagodas for the Vietnamese people is very difficult, because in addition to economic conditions have not been abundant, due to the development has not been strong.

In addition to the capacity to generate money, material wealth, we should also develop opportunities for more merit. If you do not do it now, until the age of the weak, if you want, we also no longer condition to contribute. We must be strong in the form of blessing while still in strength, and condition, should not think he is poor, not qualified to do.Boldly do good, then the results will come. If we wait for riches, we know when we can do it. In this life, desire is not always accomplished.Do good deeds, no expectations, the results will come, on the contrary, no blessings, whether the wish, the results also not achieved. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.22/5/2018.