Life is only meaningful when people know their life and death route.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.

In the Tibetan Book of the Dead - Tibetans regard death as a "positive" pathway in the process of changing their next life. And they received death with an attitude of "rejoicing" and considered it the inevitable reincarnation of the law of impermanence.

For most of us, the time spent all to fully exploit this existential life, and few people care about death, if anyone thinks about it only briefly, people often chase away fear. scared And when the violent illness came - the death came knocking on the door, we were shocked, because we considered death to end everything.

With the obsession of death clinging, so the terror of fear of it goes through human life?

So, life has a roadmap, does death also have a route? This is a fuzzy question, with a few pleasant answers.

In the Buddhist teachings there is the practice of "One dharma" and the Buddha teaches monks:

"Cultivate a dharma, spread a dharma widely. Cultivating a wide spread of dharma, there will be honor, achievement of great retribution, good and adequate things ... to the point of no-nonsense except for delusions, to attain the Siddhartha result, coming to Nirvana. What is a law? Meaning "Mindfulness of Death".

So the Tibetans, when they thought about death, did not feel anxious and fearful, did they understand deeply the concept of death that the Buddha had taught?

So the Tibetans, when they thought about death, did not feel anxious and fearful, did they understand deeply the concept of death that the Buddha had taught?

In this article, let us learn about the  "death"  from the point of view of Buddhist teachings and how to behave more correctly than the Tibetan treatment of human death.

Imbued with Buddhist teachings, Tibetans regard humans as the components of two entities: Body and Spirit. When people die, the spirit leaves this body and reincarnates into a certain realm in the continent. That spirit is according to the Buddhist language called Trung Trung Than or also called Trung Trung. And other religions and according to folk beliefs are called souls, spirits, spiritual spirits, or souls ...

Some characteristics of the central body

The Intermediate Body is the intermediate stage of past life and prepares for a rebirth (new life) so in the Buddhist teachings in general as well as the Tibetan viewpoint attaches great importance to this period of body Warm Especially at the time of near-death karma. Therefore, the salvation of the souls in the Middle-body period was set for the very strict Tibetans.

In order for us to have a clearer understanding of the Middle Body, according to the Buddhist Buddhist Dictionary of Trung Trung Group, it explains:  "The Trung Am Body also has another name called Trung-Am, or Trung Huu. Middle here is understood as the middle. The sound is the Five-syllable, the body. Middle-negative is the body in the middle.

People live and fall (die). After the waterfall, but not yet born again, during that time in the scene, people still have enough five sounds (sharp, feeling, thought, consciousness, consciousness), which means that there is enough body, so it is called Sino-Yin. The life of this life is called Show-sound (negative present). Body after the cascade is called Trung trung. And the life itself when reincarnated is called after-sound.

In Nirvana Sutra Book 29, when referring to the Middle-sound, it says: The humiliation of the eye (ie, the eye of the eye) does not see the Middle-sound; must have a new eye to see it. The Chinese-sound has three ways to eat:

1 / Honesty:   Thinking about food (ie eating full).

2 / Promotion : Touch the dish (nt).

3 / The idea :   In the idea is food (ie, eat full).

Middle-class has two grades:  Class of good karma and bad karma. Rank Thien karma results in seeing good and good things; Evil career only sees things that are bad.

When the parents communicate, the Chinese-sounding into the world (merging) is entering the fetus. So, the Middle-sound stops, gives way to the Post-sound (ie the post-hybrid body).

Nirvana Sutra 34 says:  A-na-jaw (who attained the third result) has two grades: one class immediately enters this nirvana; one more class after the waterfall, then take the Middle-sound then enter Nirvana.

The Middle-sounding body is cleverly intelligent, thanks to being a person who made pure karma, it seems that the milk cake is still.

The Middle-sound of the evil beings, it seems that the old shirt is torn, rough, rough of life. The Middle-sound of pure beings, it seems that the pure white shirt made in Ba-la-complaint ".

As mentioned above, it is very important to save the souls of this Middle-warm period. According to the Buddhist sutras as well as the Tibetan Book of Death says: Often after the death of the good people reborn immediately into the realm of goodness, the evil people will force the karmic force to bring to the three map (hell, hungry ghosts, animals). time

The majority of the rest must go through the Middle-body period, this is a period of temporary waiting for empathy to determine the future of the next life.

Progress in stages of the Middle Body

The bardo  is understood to be life after death before the consciousness of the person goes to be reborn in one of the six realms (Heaven, Man, Atula, Hell, Peta, and Animal). The middle body is the body without the flesh but only the "thought" as the body (this body has the electromagnetic). After the person dies, the consciousness escapes from the body, stays in this intermediate world for one to seven weeks (ie 49 days) and then searches for a place that is suitable for one's karma and goes to rebirth. . If during this time, the middle body has not found a place corresponding to itself for rebirth, it dies again after every seven days, and then the consciousness passes through another intermediate body, this cycle of birth and death. keep repeating until the consciousness goes reborn.

According to the Tibetan Book of the  Dead He said that during his stay with this warm middle realm, in the early days, spirits did not realize they were dead, they returned to their families to meet relatives but no one knew, they asked each other but no one answered, they tried to get back to normal like they were when they were alive but could not, until they discovered that they did not have a shadow on the ground, they did not have a picture on the mirror, they knew I'm dead. Now, they in turn remember the good and evil that they have created in the past life. All the scenes of happiness or suffering throughout their lives appear in front of their eyes like a movie. If it is the soul of a man who once created merit, spiritual practice, there are always peaceful, peaceful and easy feelings to find the path of rebirth in the realm. If those who created evil karma, living a negative life always faces scenes of suffering, horror, fear, frustration and boredom. They wandered desperately in the middle realm and wanted to find a body to be reborn in proportion to their karma.

The first and middle stage lasts only seven days, and if you have not yet reborn the consciousness, you must go through a dead experience and then return to the new middle body for another seven days. middle body for a maximum of 7 weeks (49 days)

Middle body: The person who dies peacefully will experience the peaceful death again; people who die hard, terrifying pain ... experience the suffering that is seven times more intense when they die (the cause because of the pure spiritual center - there is no physical body hindering, so the consciousness of suffering peace is seven times stronger than life).

Every time the warm-hearted person repeats the death experience, it must fully recur the circumstances of the official death: the peaceful dead will experience the peaceful death again; people who die hard, terrifying pain ... experience the suffering that is seven times more intense when they die (the cause because of the pure spiritual center - there is no physical body hindering, so the consciousness of suffering peace is seven times stronger than life).

Another thing to note is that in the transient stage of rebirth, all evil karma of the previous generations is reflected back in a condensed way, making the consciousness extremely confused. 

This is the reason why Buddhism has a recitation concept for the "seven-piece" successive dead, if every organization arranges in a timely manner before the middle of the warm-hearted moment, it must be extremely precious to re-experience death. It helps warm people feel peace, this is a benefit for rebirth.

According to the Tibetan letter, the middle body has a divine power, a subtle state: seeing, hearing, knowing the mind of the living and being able to go everywhere in the blink of an eye, through all obstacles; In summary, the mind of the dead at this stage is very sensitive, but also very dispersed and often insecure. (Therefore, bereavement should always be born of love and respect for the dead), if not only a mind-base in the heart has a contempt, disrespect is also discovered by the dead but born angry. lost in evil; if the family members argue with each other, the situation will get worse.

Remember, the 49-day period is the most important period for the living to help the dead, helping them to establish good karma, ie helping them to transition to their feet, to become saints easily.

According to Professor Dudjom Rinpoche, in the first 21 days of the Middle Ages, the dead still have some strong impressions of the past life, so this is the most important period for the living to help the dead.

After that, rebirth gradually (figurative) and become the main influence, so the opportunity to transfer their career is more difficult than the first 21 days.

After 49 days if not reincarnated, the consciousness will no longer be in the form of a warm body, so it will no longer be able to recreate the life experience after every seven days, because then it has changed to a demonic life. From this point on, saving salvation becomes extremely difficult.

Method to save lemur in the Middle period

As mentioned above, when it comes to the date of rebirth, the consciousness of that person is drawn to the place of future rebirth (ie the next life), maybe even the place is hell. For example, a butcher saw a sheep or a wild cow, he wanted to chase and kill it, and immediately he saw the shadow appear, so he was angry, the anger ended his body middle and his consciousness falls into hell or animal life. (We should remember, according to Buddhist teachings - the transition of life from one life to another is due to kamma). So there is a karma that is the cause, karma is the organ.

Karma (karma) has a special ability and plays a very important role in the formation of human mind. Karma is formed under a collection of three poisons (greed, anger, and ignorance) or ignorance and craving. It is ignorance and craving that are the roots of all negative karma.

So karma has a special ability and plays a very important role in the formation of human mind. Karma is formed under a collection of three poisons (greed, anger, and ignorance) or ignorance and craving. It is ignorance and craving that are the roots of all negative karma.

Because of this negative karma, people drift around in samsara. To get rid of this cycle of suffering, human beings (we) must strive to practice cessation with the root of ignorance.

When ignorance is eradicated, craving (desire) is also eradicated, craving is eradicated, birth, aging, sickness, death, sorrow and suffering are no longer available, then human beings truly escape from the siege of samsara samsara.

In order to get a nice rebirth, back to the above problem, we must have a positive attitude towards the Middle-body in preparation for regeneration. With the sharpness and hypersensitivity of Trung Trung, at this time, relatives in the family must control all disadvantages to the spirit (the dead). Because at this stage they are very easy to get angry (impatient) and love (sticking) so we have to treat them gently and compassionately, so that they can safely have a rebirth in a peaceful realm without lost in the three miserable things.

So, the role and method of saving souls here are posed as important optimizations. This issue in the Buddhist doctrine mentioned, and the Tibetans are also very attentive at the near-death stage (at death) we should learn and learn from them:

1 / Self-cultivation role - the spirit of spirit:

-It must be clearly aware that the spirit itself must be awakened and transformed, then the rebirth-supernatural will have the opportunity to attain, if the spirit of the spirit persists, clings to delusion, immerses the fame, angry and faint, all the support efforts of relatives and monks are useless.

Therefore, if the spirit has a moral life, and once obeyed the Dharma, then just listening to the testimony, listening to chanting, listening to reminders, a recitation of Buddha's mind ... can also be immediately transformed.

Huong Linh though not yet recited the Buddha's name, but thanks to the good base, relying on the mind of the relatives, but admiring the Buddha, a non-disturbing Buddha's mind, can also be led by the Saints to the Western realms of the Pure Land.

2 / The role of relatives:

-The family also plays an important role in saving the dead, because only relatives are bound by the karma, and the deep attachment to the dead has enough affection to make the dead happy. welcome and develop the mind, transform the karma into good karma.

Therefore, the kinship should be constantly kept sincere and filial to the dead. And remember that in the 49-day period, the consciousness of the dead is very sensitive and they clearly understand the human mind who lives for them. So, the prerequisite for doing whatever the Buddha's family should also focus on the dead. If we sincerely pray, then the consciousness they will feel and be happy, thanks to the birth and birth of the supernatural; (On the contrary, during this time, the descendants are inclined to be rebellious, indiscriminate speeches and births, the consciousness of the dead knows this very well, so they are born miserable, angry but lost).

Relatives can also support the spirit of spiritual transformation through the method of fasting, chanting, doing good deeds ... reflecting on the spirit. (According to the Sutra Bodhisattva Vows, the seventh product has said, then in the seven parts of merit, the spirit of spirit also enjoys a part)

Family members during this time should remember, avoid killing animals and killing them in the name of funerals to organize and treat the spirit spirit to be jointly responsible for karma. If there is a spiritual incense offering, it should be a pure vegetarian, and the family eating and drinking should organize a simple, compact and avoid any noisy and disadvantageous things as well.

3 / The role of the monks and nuns:

Anyway, while tangled in confusion, if there is an experienced instructor, the living person feels relieved, but the spirit spirit also has better conditions of mind transformation.

If the host is a virtuous master who has been revered by the spirit, then his good teaching (spiritualism) will help the spirit to transform very strongly and effectively. (It should also be noted, at this time, the spirit of spirituality is subtle, if a master of the liturgy is clever and his stomach is poor and righteous, this spirit can also be known to be disturbed by mind).

Being celebrated by the monks and nuns with sincerity, the funeral can fully fulfill all Buddhist virtues; on the contrary, if for some reason (ie not affectionate with Buddhism), then using a teacher according to folk beliefs, but also must be pure and honest to benefit.

In some cases without conditions to invite the monks and nuns: in this circumstance, according to the teachings of the monks, the homeowners should boldly ask themselves or know the layman, arbitrarily relying on Buddhist scriptures to read chanting and reciting the Buddha's Sutra for the supernatural, it also has good results. In fact, Dharma Buddha is a method to cultivate, listen to and learn, but not a color that needs to be recited according to the sound of the "ringing" bell that is intolerant to be effective.

The problem is that homeowners need to have a sincere mind, wholeheartedly for the spirituality but earnestly say so, even though the simple simple funeral and spiritual values ​​can still be very profound. According to the Venerable Thich Hoa Hoa:  "A blessing, a true wish is also a prayer of spiritual inspiration and mystery."

In addition to the official ritual, every day if we remember the deceased, our relatives should continue to recite the Buddha's repatriation (for them) with faith, solid faith will have a lot of beneficial touches. with lemur. (Remember one thing is the small ceremony, but the mind is still bringing spiritual benefits.)

The best time to practice for the dead while remaining in the form of the middle body, the first 3 weeks is the most important, because at this time the dead are also strongly connected with life, so they easily receive help. support of relatives; In summary, the practice of relatives influences the future of the dead very much, can help them to liberate, or reborn well.

Some scattered things change words

Dharma precepts of Buddhism help us to be more optimistic when we think about human death, because life in the world is only a brief period (sixty-seven years) in the process of birth and death. only

Saying so does not mean that Buddhism agrees with death and thinks that the unchanging soul does not change like other religions.

Dharma precepts of Buddhism need a death, or rather it is necessary to die in the wake of awareness, not to be lost. So the Buddha taught, "Wisdom of the market". And karma here is understood as human intellect in our whole life and death process.

So living with a roadmap, death also has a roadmap, not a lack of responsibility to let go and wait for death and death to end everything ...!

Buddhism does not consider human life to be a pseudo, but it is difficult to see human life! So the Buddha taught, "it is difficult for the human body to meet the Dharma." It is the Buddha who advises us: to have this body already, borrow it and take care of enlightenment - liberation, not be absorbed in the benefits This is true Dharma precepts of Buddhism. And this is what Buddha teaches, only karma (ie wisdom and consciousness) follows me, everything when death dies.

How does Buddhism refer to samsara meaning life and death? Death or rebirth to liberation. This is the whole doctrine that the Buddha taught and advised us to cultivate to escape the cycle of samsara and samsara (only the law of Buddhism's birth and death will have an optimistic and open view of such death). .

Different from the folk beliefs, considering death as the end of everything, so clinging, clinging ... mournful but crying cruelly - compassionate. Filial piety of this type, is filial in the ignorance of being born of samsara.

The Buddhist filial piety is "the best practice in the world" . It means that a cultivator of austerity will help many lives to be enlightened-liberated.

At one time, Buddhism was misunderstood to be cynical, loving, because many people did not understand the doctrine and thought that Buddhism considered a human being to be a temporary fake. The abandonment (greed, anger, ignorance) to live truly is a human being is ambiguous.

Buddhism does not consider human life to be a pseudo, but it is difficult to see human life! So the Buddha taught, "it is difficult for the human body to meet the Dharma." It is the Buddha who advises us: to have this body already, borrow it and take care of enlightenment - liberation, not be absorbed in the benefits This is true Dharma precepts of Buddhism. And this is what Buddha teaches, only karma (ie wisdom and consciousness) follows me, everything when death dies.

In this article, just ask the reader and the first friend to learn about the Buddhist teachings, so that we have a truly meaningful life on the life and death process of human life. This is not only a message but a genuine prayer for those who find the path of enlightenment and liberation following the Buddha's teaching. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.6/3/2019.