The intermediate state body.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

I. Introduction A person's life may be one hundred years, or it may be shorter. When we are alive we know we must die one day. Is it a life that encapsulates the words Life and Death?

"Clever intelligence hero,
foolish fool also share a mound".

We know that, but we still spend most of our time, mind, talent to compete than lose, right and left ... In the short fragile life of one human life, few people will stop A minute of deep reflection on the past and the future, asking yourself a question:

Where are we from and where will death go? In fact, Buddhism not only focuses on when dying, but because you want to die as well as when alive, are at peace. Already a sentient being of course, there is birth and death, and a city where there is a failure; it is an immutable law of life, the law of all things. The existence of things from thousands of years to thousands of times is like a moon in water, flowers in glass, not long-lasting, unreal, only in a fleeting flash like smoke clouds flying before you, like dreams, like floating foam. All fluctuations ceaselessly in every moment of birth and death.

Death is an indispensable law of all things that have life. Death is not the final resting place but the end of your previous life and the preparation of a new life.
Nervousness has urged me many times to boldly hold a pen, to write, to mention to the reader a strange state of man while he is about to die, or to die. That is what I have collected in Buddhist texts, and sometimes I see my friends and friends in the moment of my departure by the prayer of the teachers. Therefore, I would like to introduce the small sections of this article, I hope the welcome of the readers, the dead and the living enjoy many benefits.

II. The breath has stopped but the consciousness has not left the body
Some people say that dying like a light is out, but the truth is not so, a burned ball is broken if we replace the new light, the light bulb will continue to glow, the dead symbolize the light is off, the bulb is broken, we replace the ball. In the symbol that signifies liberation, straying, or reincarnation, the broken bulb does not mean the power has been lost but it is still inside.
For a human being after the breath has ceased, the consciousness has not left the body, all the sensation is the same as us, except that we know pain, awareness, resistance. And consciousness is the opposite ... now only Abaya consciousness called the eighth consciousness is the last consciousness leaving the body to end a life, a life. But that consciousness is the first consciousness that enters into the womb to form a new being, a new life. Therefore, it is said that Abel was the owner of life and death in samsara. In order to make it easier for the writer to write, please borrow the phrase:
"I and I have two but one
We with one but two."

In the passion of love, when a man and a woman fall in love with each other to the extreme, the body and soul at this moment, they are united as a no more boundary between man and woman, between us and us, between us and us, the desire of love love on both sides merged into a mass of glue, that karma contained by A-back-da who waited until that stage, it matured, created a karma to create a new life. And so on and on and on forever on the path of samsara.

Therefore, a person stops breathing, the pulse stops, the heart stops, but the spiritual part has not really left the body, it is still in a state of full perception. The sensation of that mind is like a turtle being stripped from its shell, separated from its shell, they are in pain, but cannot speak, the consciousness feels helpless with pain, every gesture of action of relatives he can still live, but he can not explain to his loved ones with words, actions, appearance as if they are still alive, then they feel sad and lonely.

During that time the consciousness has not escaped from the body, our loved ones should take care of gently washing, especially we should not cry and cry, because at this time the consciousness does not know that we really die. . They see us crying, they do not understand why we cry, so it weighs heavily on the spirit of the lost.

At this stage, the spirit of the dead feels the emptiness because they have separated from their old life. We lose loved ones, feel pain, the spirit of separation from their bodies also feel dull, afraid to be with another world, the world without relatives, to understand this we have to sympathize with people unlucky. We take turns reciting the Buddha's teachings together with the verse of chanting to assist the spirit to go in peace and lightness.

III. The stage of consciousness leaving the body
After stopping the breath, the consciousness leaving the body, if not liberated, must experience a state of obscurity for three days or more. Because it depends on the merit of the person while still alive, then begin to enter the intermediate state. For ease of understanding we divide into three categories.
A. For those who are still alive when they practice virtue.
1 / No killing: Compassionate no murder
2 / No stealing: Straight, don't take your own.
3 / No adultery: Chastity is not illicit.
4 / Don't lie: Honestly don't lie.
5 / Non-woven: Honestly not cunning
6 / No stabbing: harmony without saying cockroaches
7 / Not speaking cruelly: Gentle not harsh not vulgar.
8 / Not guilty: generous generosity.
9 / No anger: From patience patiently
10 / No delusion: Wise awareness.

At the same time taking refuge in the Three Precepts, keeping the five precepts alive, ceremony, meaning, wisdom and faith.
When the breath is off, he dies, immediately the consciousness will be reborn in heaven, the human realm without waiting.
B. Those who meditate or recite the Buddha's name to one-pointedness of disorder, when the consciousness leaves the body, they are immediately reborn in heaven.
C-For those wicked sinister people, when they stop breathing the consciousness will fall into three evil ways (hell, hungry ghosts and animals).
Again, it is common for people to die when their bodies have cooled down, but there is one last hot spot in the body which then becomes cold, which is the departure of consciousness, in order to prepare to fake this body.

According to the experience of the ancient virtues, the cold body, probably only in the eyes or on the forehead, there is a hot spot we predict the dead will escape the cycle of birth and death and return to the holy realms. If the remaining hot spots will be born in heaven (heavenly birth). If there is a hot spot in the chest, it will be born into the human race (human mind) if the rest of the hot spot falls into the realm of hungry ghosts. If the whole body is cold but the knee is still hot spots will be born in the realms of birth. And finally, if the whole body is cold and the soles of the feet are hot, we predict that they will go to hell (hell at heart). It is a precise experience of the predecessors, but sometimes in fact we face the corpses, find most of them hot at the chest, and other places less often. We just need to look at what we do,

IV. Spirit where to go after leaving the

Buddha once said: "Beings drift in the three realms of six roads depending on good karma, evil karma that senses". After death, the consciousness (the intermediate state body) of their reincarnation is dependent on the karma created during their life, that is, they have to go up and down in the six paths. So on, life and death, life and death, rising and falling, changing shape, sinking, floating, rolling and sliding in the circle of life and death wheel. Only those who cultivate virtue, direct good deeds, do good deeds, recite Buddha's name, then after their death, immediately their consciousness will be born to the West of Bliss. They are no longer dominated by the karmic concentration of karmic retribution in the three realms of reincarnation.

The intermediate state body went to reincarnation, moved to a new life because of good karma and bad karma. However, near death industry (karma caused in the split second moment of life) it is also very important decisive for the body reported the future. It is an optimal that we cannot ignore. Some people when alive do not know how to create goodness, cultivate merit, do not chant scriptures, eat vegetarian food, recite Buddha's name. At a young age, they put all their strength into competing, losing humanity, looting, killing, fighting for their winnings and benefits. When they were about to die, in a split second, near death karma came, they awakened to feel repentance, regained good direction with a heart of repentance, repenting their sins, turning their heads towards good thinking of Buddha and Bodhisattva. Near-death karma in that moment was neutralized, they can be liberated from falling into an evil way. Therefore, one last thought when we close our eyes to death is the source of motivation in the matter of super-helplessness or corruption. If a thought remembers thinking that good will be born in good faith, if a thought is evil, it will fall into the evil path; if reciting, remember that Buddha will be reborn in the Pure Land. Close to karma, it has a peculiar, decisive characteristic for a whole human life in the long term.

V. What did a loved one save the intermediate body?

The perversion of reincarnation or liberation of spirits is caused by the litigants themselves while living, but the family also has a part of the responsibility in this regard. Spending over 49 days is an important milestone for the intermediate state body to reincarnate according to the karma created at the time of life. Although life never created good conditions, studied Buddha, believed in Buddha, fasted, recited Buddha's name, generosity, generosity, but when they passed away, for about 49 days, the intermediate state body existed in a precarious state and she miserable them every second, every minute longing for the salvation of their loved ones. Therefore, the super-helplessness or debauchery of a spirit depends on the loved ones, the living ones. We should give courage to save souls from the edge. Such as pressing the canon, alms, free birth, worship week lost heart, sincerely praying for the return of the spirit of good will. Within 49 days, our relatives should be vegetarian, use vegetarian food to worship and strictly forbid not to kill. So not only will those who lose benefits, but those who live are blessed because they don't create karma. As it is recorded in the Sutta Pitaka: "Doing the killing, up to the sacrifice of the devil, did not have a single bit of merit, could benefit the dead, but also committed more serious sins. Even if the dead go on to their next life, or in this life, they can witness the fruit or go to heaven, but when they die they are evil people implications much, slowly being born. How much more if that dead person did not do any good, a good deed, only created according to the root of the karma to create, he should have suffered evil, if anyone could cause more karma for them ". use vegetarian food to worship and strictly forbid not to kill. So not only will those who lose benefits, but those who live are blessed because they don't create karma. As it is recorded in the Sutta Pitaka: "Doing the killing, up to the sacrifice of the devil, did not have a single bit of merit, could benefit the dead, but also committed more serious sins. Even if the dead go on to their next life, or in this life, they can witness the fruit or go to heaven, but when they die they are evil people implications much, slowly being born. How much more if that dead person did not do any good, a good deed, only created according to the root of the karma to create, he should have suffered evil, if anyone could cause more karma for them ". use vegetarian food to worship and strictly forbid not to kill. So not only will those who lose benefits, but those who live are blessed because they don't create karma. As it is recorded in the Sutta Pitaka: "Doing the killing, up to the sacrifice of the devil, did not have a single bit of merit, could benefit the dead, but also committed more serious sins. Even if the dead go on to their next life, or in this life, they can witness the fruit or go to heaven, but when they die they are evil people implications much, slowly being born. How much more if that dead person did not do any good, a good deed, only created according to the root of the karma to create, he should have suffered evil, if anyone could cause more karma for them ". but the living people are blessed because they don't create karma. As it is recorded in the Sutta Pitaka: "Doing the killing, up to the sacrifice of the devil, did not have a single bit of merit, could benefit the dead, but also committed more serious sins. Even if the dead go on to their next life, or in this life, they can witness the fruit or go to heaven, but when they die they are evil people implications much, slowly being born. How much more if that dead person did not do any good, a good deed, only created according to the root of the karma to create, he should have suffered evil, if anyone could cause more karma for them ". but the living people are blessed because they don't create karma. As it is recorded in the Sutta Pitaka: "Doing the killing, up to the sacrifice of the devil, did not have a single bit of merit, could benefit the dead, but also committed more serious sins. Even if the dead go on to their next life, or in this life, they can witness the fruit or go to heaven, but when they die they are evil people implications much, slowly being born. How much more if that dead person did not do any good, a good deed, only created according to the root of the karma to create, he should have suffered evil, if anyone could cause more karma for them ". but the more sin will deepen. Even if the dead go on to their next life, or in this life, they can witness the fruit or go to heaven, but when they die they are evil people implications much, slowly being born. How much more if that dead person did not do any good, a good deed, only created according to the root of the karma to create, he should have suffered evil, if anyone could cause more karma for them ". but the more sin will deepen. Even if the dead go on to their next life, or in this life, they can witness the fruits or be born in heaven, but when they die they are evil people implications much, slowly being born. How much more if that dead person did not do a bit of good, a good deed, only based on the root of the karma to create, he should have suffered evil, if anyone could cause more karma for them ”.
Therefore, the merits of doing good deeds and creating blessings of relatives, even if the dead people fall into hell, hungry ghosts, and animals also gain many benefits, the heavy karma becomes a light karma and the merit of merit wins .

When the dead leave an inheritance, in order to save and create merit for the deceased, the living should devote themselves to giving materially to the poor, printing books, paintings, statues, or doing anything useful to society. . But we should keep in mind one thing that does these things, which must be confronted with the ghosts of the spirits and revealed to them, in order to avoid confusion and resentment, regretting their possessions. Caused by the spirit of instant spirits up evil concept of anger, anger immediately fell, karma led them into evil. It is best to divide assets over 49 days, wait for Than Trung Warm to reincarnate, and in the 49 day period, Than Trung Warm still immerses in his possessions, whoever touches them will immediately start to anger and anger. will be doomed. In the Sutta, it is said, “While taking the inheritance of the dead and doing merit in order to save them, first of all to ascertain whether that person is still alive or not, if they still live when they live, when they see the people bring their heritage to do the Buddha or alms. They all saw that their things were now owned by others, and they immediately regretted their regret. That cause that up evil concept, immediately led to the evil industry. So good knowledge is that their family members must know how to declare: “Now I am the one who brings the legacy of the Buddha, or does merit, doing so, that is, bringing smuggled wealth into work Smuggled, thanks to this merit will be super born Pure Land. You must pay homage to recite Buddha Amitabha, pray to Him for salvation. For the legacy to leave without being bothered, there must be absolutely no nostalgia for greed. Because the worldly possessions cannot be used anymore, for you it has become useless. ” then when you see people bring their heritage to do Buddha or alms. They all saw that their things were now owned by others, and they immediately regretted their regret. That cause that up evil concept, immediately led to the evil industry. So good knowledge is that their family members must know how to declare: “Now I am the one who brings the legacy of the Buddha, or does merit, doing so, that is, bringing smuggled wealth into work Smuggled, thanks to this merit will be super born Pure Land. You must pay homage to recite Buddha Amitabha, pray to Him for salvation. For the legacy to leave without being bothered, there must be absolutely no nostalgia for greed. Because the worldly possessions cannot be used anymore, for you it has become useless. ” then when you see people bring their heritage to do Buddha or alms. They all saw that their things were now owned by others, and they immediately regretted their regret. That cause that up evil concept, immediately led to the evil industry. So good knowledge is that their family members must know how to declare: "Now I am the one who brings the legacy of the Buddha, or does merit, doing so, that is, bringing smuggled wealth into work." Smuggled, thanks to this merit will be super born Pure Land. You must pay homage to recite Buddha Amitabha, pray to Him for salvation. For the legacy to leave without being bothered, there must be absolutely no nostalgia for greed. Because the worldly possessions cannot be used anymore, for you it has become useless. ” instant regrets anger regret. That cause that up evil concept, immediately led to the evil industry. So good knowledge is that their family members must know how to declare: “Now I am the one who brings the legacy of the Buddha, or does merit, doing so, that is, bringing smuggled wealth into work Smuggled, thanks to this merit will be super born Pure Land. You must pay homage to recite Buddha Amitabha, pray to Him for salvation. For the legacy to leave without being bothered, there must be absolutely no nostalgia for greed. Because the worldly possessions cannot be used anymore, for you it has become useless. ” instant regrets anger regret. That cause that up evil concept, immediately led to the evil industry. So good knowledge is that their family members must know how to declare: “Now I am the one who brings the legacy of the Buddha, or does merit, doing so, that is, bringing smuggled wealth into work Smuggled, thanks to this merit will be super born Pure Land. You must pay homage to recite Buddha Amitabha, pray to Him for salvation. For the legacy to leave without being bothered, there must be absolutely no nostalgia for greed. Because the worldly possessions cannot be used anymore, for you it has become useless. ” That is to bring smuggled wealth to work smuggled, thanks in this merit will be super Pure Land. You must pay homage to recite Buddha Amitabha, pray to Him for salvation. For the legacy to leave without being bothered, there must be absolutely no nostalgia for greed. Because the worldly possessions cannot be used anymore, for you it has become useless. ” That is to bring smuggled wealth to work smuggled, thanks in this merit will be super Pure Land. You must pay homage to recite Buddha Amitabha, pray to Him for salvation. For the legacy to leave without being bothered, there must be absolutely no nostalgia for greed. Because the worldly possessions cannot be used anymore, for you it has become useless. ”

The intermediate state body reincarnates according to the karma
The domination of karma that each intermediate state feels, is different, before it is reported, at that time the consciousness has left the body but it is still bewitched in the hazy scene , regardless of whether he was alive or dead, not knowing where he was going, he still saw, he still knew what the living person was doing, each appeared in front of his eyes, but he only knew not to answer by the sound of his voice. speak for relatives and living people to hear, understand and know.

Sometimes he sees his loved ones crying bitterly in the body and is also funny and sometimes crying to try to explain to relatives not to cry, because they think they are still alive. But we totally don't know because yin and yang are two separate ways. Our relatives understand this, so try not to cry and cry out, instead focus on reciting Amitabha Buddha praying for him to continue to lead the spirit to gently escape, or to request invite the senior monks in the temple and the celestial beings to chant in unison, before the bodies of the dead, or confront the spirit of the dead to declare, that time is an extremely important moment, ups and downs. , happy, miserable, liberated, corrupted are decided decisively in the moment that consciousness leaves the body, the four great bodies disperse. Our relatives should note one thing, After the person has lost their last breath, we should leave it alone or move for 8 to 10 hours. At that time, between consciousness and body separated, they were like a turtle that was separated from the shell and peeled off from the shell, so we touched the feeling of double pain, the person who lost pain cried out angrily but we do not know at all, thus creating unfortunate suffering for an eternity, which is what our loved ones should be aware of.

The immediate liberation is the near release, the future liberation is the far liberation. But in order to be liberated in the future, one must cause cause and liberation in the present, according to the Buddhist concept that the debauchery of reincarnation or liberation goes through six mortal scenes and four saints.

Six scenes: hell, eagle, hungry ghosts, atula, people and heaven.
Four saints: Thanh Van, Pratyekabuddha, Bodhisattva and Buddha.

I /. Six scenes of flesh
1. Fall into hell

Even in this lifetime if we are human, but we do not cultivate virtue, cause so many evil things, until the moment of death many terrifying scenes appear and surround, fear has caused consciousness find ways to flee to pray for escape. But the bad karma comes to escape.

The more they tried to run, they couldn't find a direction, they could only hide to avoid fear and fear, then suddenly they heard melancholy songs that sadly soothed the fear that surrounded them and began to look for them. according to that music, all of a sudden, their bodies were chased away into a dark and dark landscape, sometimes the houses and castles were sometimes white, sometimes black, deep caves, the roads were dark, the feet were walking under. the earth was full of hot fire, sometimes soaked in the cold, so much suffering, then the flames that they thought was a warmth so rushed over there, suddenly a breeze the heat cannot escape, the bridge cannot live, the death cannot be finished. Our relatives for the sake of the dead, enlightenment and support for reciting the Buddha's name. Although that predestined relationship is not enough to save them, but also can improve the malice gradually, they reduce the suffering.

2. Fallen on the eagle being
Karma of the dead if reincarnated into the eagle being, it is divided into four species: ovum birth, birth, low birth and chemical birth.

a /. Low birth and reincarnation
Being a place of birth and humidity, it feels suitable in the place of the smell of sticky mud, making that a temporary refuge, giving birth to affection, and immediately coming to that place to take birth, depending on Karma love sensations, it comes to the close that falls into it. In it there is no blood of a harmonious parent. During that period of circulation, it can transform from one stage to another like a frog turns into a frog, a pup turns into a silkworm silkworm.

b /. Ova birth and fetus
The intermediate state body falls into this species if its jealousy is heavy, anger, hatred, and will reincarnate into wolves, tigers, wild beasts, centipedes and scorpions. And again, those who live lustfully filled, heavy, dispersed, will die as a lovebirds, pigeons, or birds. Until those who live in mischief, fall, when falls will fall into apes, monkeys ... The law of samsara never runs away, when living and sowing what causes and produces what fruits then at death all have to pay.

c /. Falling into a hungry ghost
The feeling of the dead will fall into the hungry ghost, at that time seeing many scary demons in the form, holding many weapons, bright fangs, roaring and screaming. , robbing people of their lives, jumping around and chasing after them at times, violent storms, thunder, rain, and hot fire besieging the middle body, when the cold wind blows into the bone marrow. dreadful to want to faint trying to run to hide, run to where the front is a deep abyss, dead and alive standing still.

Falling into hungry ghosts is divided into many species. Peta has power and hungry ghosts.

Hungry ghosts: This type of ghosts have the power to transform, not hungry and miserable. As in the sutras, there is the yaksha demon, the devil, and the table-tea. Devils that have the dread at life also do almsgiving, when they die, they are also welcomed with solemnity but they have a bad thing, which is being exploited into hungry ghosts. While still living as a big official, but they were overwhelming people, not treating the people properly, sometimes considering injustice and killing unjustly ordinary people, when they fell to be a Devil.

Peta has no majesty: A hungry, cold, cold, stinky body, ulcerated body, covered with bacteria, difficult to eat and always wish to enjoy. There are old types of demons like needles, big bellies like bells, stinking mouths that could only eat anything with liquid water, such as porridge, the types of devils in the scriptures could not be described. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.25/3/2020.