KNOWING TO DEATH DO NOT DEATH.

Facing death is one of the great challenges facing people. Buddhism teaches people to have the courage to accept that truth. It originates from the perception of insight that death is an obvious fact, a law that one must experience once. Definitely not afraid of death, because death depends on the karma of each person sooner or later. How long a man, a day, a month, a year, two or hundred years is, depending on the karma of the life he has planted from his past life, plus the number of good karma sown in the present life.

It is necessary to realize the Buddha 's teaching in the Sutra: " Death is a law, there is life, there must be death. Do not start looking forward to death. "  This is what is taught in business Buddha  Anguttara . Birth, aging, illness, suffering and death are an obvious rule. Therefore, we do not expect that we are not sick and do not suffer. Understanding it, we do not expect to get out of illness and die when death comes, we are not afraid, do not exaggerate it.

Some people, exaggerated over death, panic, screaming, hair pulled, chest beat ... Because of emotional anxiety, fear of excessive death makes the body of affluence affected the process of creating that emotion. Since then, when they die, their karmic consciousness can not be born in the realm of good and good. In life, our relatives are good people who do evil, when they stand before death, we should start happy and convinced that they will be born in the realm of peace.

 To show our affection, respect for the dead, when we go to the funeral, we stop, take off our hat to say goodbye, or when the funeral should dress simple, discreet , politely to express his love for the deceased. 

 When hearing the news of Sakyamuni Buddha entering Nirvana, the reaction in the Sangha is very diverse. Ananda, please do not go, he left us there will be no room to take refuge. And the Arahants still have a calm attitude, because they know the reason why the Tathagata has to go? What needs to be said for life, the Blessed One said in forty nine years of practice (according to the North), or forty-five years (according to Nam Tong). If he was still alive, the Buddha would not say anything other than what he said. Of course, the Buddha went to create the regret of psychology for the rest to try to practice, to benefit.

 Unable to restrain the emotions, Ananda cried miserably. Seeing this, A-Brown long-time to say to Ananda:

- Do not cry. He weeps make the Buddhists cry. He cried so, people say that, the Sun teaches how the disciples standing before death also suffering, so lamented.

 "A-Brown continued:

- When the world has done so many merits for life, is widely regarded as the source of life, the happiness of life, boundless merit, immeasurable. Therefore, we should not cry. Listen to A-brown-long-momentary reminder, Aan nan still crying, can not control the flow of emotions.

In the face of death, how do we know our spiritual frequency? Eventually we will know, but when the security, happiness, success will not know it. Because the illusion safe holds all our emotions. Buddha taught, sometimes we should go to the tombs, burial grounds to observe the death, see are afraid? Would dare to sleep alone outside the mound or not? Sleep outside the mound code is one of the ten happy momentum.

In the Indian culture, for some people, they do not choose burial but cremation (throwing dead bodies into the forest or hanging on the tree for predatory birds). When the forest birds eat the dead, only the skeleton remains, the ascetic comes next to the bones and sleeps. It is a way of practicing so that the monk is not afraid of death. 

Standing before death, we should not cry but need compassion. At that time, we need to visualize, hoping for the early death of the supernatural in the realm of peace. However, this misunderstanding, improper application will cause the mind to be hardened before death, especially for the death of the stranger.

For some, compassion only arises when one's loved ones die, and to strangers, no matter how demented they are, buried by earthquakes. , or seismic waves do not stir, or when listening to organizations mobilize relief, sharing the suffering with the misfortune, because of regret the material things, some people did not respond. If so, the feelings that we give to relatives are only human feelings, not compassion. The expression of compassion is very different, when one hears of the death and pain of any one, our compassion will arise and be communicated to them in ways that we can do. For example, help them with money, in kind, by heart or by prayer, to motivate others to help.

 When we understand death, we do not fear that it is normal. Like the notion of some confident people claiming that dying is removing old clothes to change clothes, changing old cars, creating new cars, or leaving our secular world to return to the Pure Land. of Amitabha Buddha, or the Eastern Way of the Buddhist Medicine, or wish to return to the realm as a Buddhist monk to devote himself to the community and society, etc. Next life will be the Great Vehicle Too many can accommodate thousands, thousands of people to the life of happiness and peace.

If there is a firm belief in rebirth, the practice of good things between life, surely, we will be calm, liberated before life and death. On the contrary, if the birth of fear before death, the realm of departure is blind, indeterminate, do not know where the times.

 The Buddha's teachings on death are so much, just here present some experiences facing death, practice the Buddha's teachings, prepare yourself some skills, train your mind Be firmly before giving up life and after death, we will be in the realm of peace in the fastest, most sure way. 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.