With a strawberry

the past few days that were Khyentse Rinpoche in 2007 talks in Hong Kong: Advice
dying and death in the presentation in the Bardo, very touching, and have not read this articles to share.
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in the \money, friends, and so worldly wealth, then we also have a wealth beyond the mundane. you know, wealth is difficult to obtain, especially beyond the worldly wealth; for the Buddhist beginners, beyond the worldly wealth is small. 'grief 'is as a practitioner should have one major asset, Zhuo Yang Trungpa Rinpoche (Chogyam
Trungpa Rinpoche) said that grief for the' heartfelt sorrow (genuine heart of sadness) '.

, of course, you might think, our life has been too many sad things, but in general our sorrow will turn to me representative of the wealth of this sadness is not the same. general grief is like trying to three strawberry pyramid.

you embrace this hope: With a strawberry, the strawberry pieces to try to stack the second in a above; second teeth You can also stand firm, but to fold down the third satellite, and can not afford to be very difficult. sometimes worse, the third teeth teeth second Strawberry looks like a strawberry stand a few seconds, which is not good! because It gives you hope, make you feel will be successful next time, next time will be different. Our life is a bit like this. From the beginning, we have been trying various things, but very few people think she could or their a life fully lived, we would like the most is 'I have not properly lived' ─ ─ This is the secular sad sad.

When we talk about beyond the worldly sorrow, which is We will be discussing the grief on behalf of wealth, it is somewhat like a happy sadness. It's a little like listening to a sad song, sad from comprehending the truth, know matter what you do, no matter how much you close to the success of the third planet after all, can only stand for a while and then strawberry drops. the understanding of the facts, so the feeling is basically like a laugh at themselves - we are talking about this grief.
we like in laugh at themselves, their way of doing things, their attitudes and ideas, which we will help. life so hard, so what? so we keep shopping, fake? will live like a thousand years. When we shopping is to try to stack the third satellite in the second pieces of strawberry on top. This is why the 'heartfelt sorrow' is such an important asset.
access to such wealth, the only way, do not say 'get' only allow us to start treasure, long way this wealth is to understand the reality. We have to talk about is not comprehending the reality is very profound, such as 'sex is zero, Kongjishise'; this time to talk about is very simple fact, we have no choice but to accept the fact ─ ─ died. But we are not talking about the future of the death will occur, but the fact is happening now ─ ─ present moment, we are dead. comprehending this death In fact, that is, comprehending the fact that the survival of reality. of course you know this, I will give a detailed explanation, but will not give you a dying how to pack the list.
There is a very important topics: reincarnation, afterlife. If there is no afterlife, nothing to worry about, you just like a factory, when the power runs out, the factory also will stop running. We are all regarded as Buddhists, we believe that many people think twice about reincarnation The concept of reincarnation, and pride in this belief. On the contrary, some scientists may be proud of anarchism in reincarnation believe that there is no such thing. From the Buddhist point of view, there is no reincarnation, in what are considered the second level Yuan opposition, so we can only level up in the discussion of the relative concept of reincarnation.
when we are relatively level discussions, basically, we are very vague discussions. vague, general, not accurate, it is complete part of the relative truth. Also in the \, among many students accumulated a number of Crawford, and clean all contaminated. But the Buddha Heart muttering said: 'Second calamity it has suffered several million times the reincarnation of another reincarnation, this is really a long time ah!' The Buddha replied: ' Do not worry, when you get in early to permit, you will find all of these reincarnation, the New Year, Christmas, national transformation, into all kinds of living beings ─ ─ sometimes flying in the sky, sometimes in the water, these all occurred in the spark burst Also out of a second. 'The Buddha said:' Then when you get 10 cards, the looking back found himself crossing of the limitless sentient beings. 'Buddha on the Buddha said:' If a Bodhisattva sees himself transition of the infinite beings, it is like a firefly light up the world consider themselves the same. 'Buddha then continued:' When once you become a Buddha, will find themselves living beings from the never is, from never to practice, never From the beginning, suffering, you were not even the Buddha. 'the above three paragraphs, then let us amazing insight into the views of Mahayana Buddhism. Among the first paragraph, then, the concept of Buddha break time, if no time, how there will be reincarnated the next life? the second paragraph, then the concept of Buddha break room. in the third paragraph, then inside, Buddha broke Road, Fruit of the whole concept. Therefore, the concept of reincarnation exists only in the context of the time. from yesterday to today, I continue with this kind of phase is the only thing I have and continue to refer to something called reincarnation. This continued with the experience to be kept alive, until he came to hinder so far.
have a similar story in India was very well written. a man always to Krishna (Krishna) pray one day he dreamed of thirst, drink discussion around in a dream, and then someone gave him water, and this water into a flood, he was rushed to a completely flood strange shore. He does not know how to go home, do not know how to contact his wife and children, year after year, he was looking way back. At the same time, he met a girl, and her new set of families were . One day when he went to water from the lake to see their own reflection, infirm, and his face covered with wrinkles, gray beard. He was inexplicable sadness, remember the ex-wife, at the time he was suddenly awakened from a dream, Then Krishna appeared before him. sorry, I know this should be the professor of Buddhist keep up better! Krishna said to him: 'how do you it? you want to drink water I will give you water! 'I mention this story because, when the people awaken from the dream when he lost the family, another family going through the time and so things have disappeared in just. As the growth of the culture, most people think, Reincarnation is a physical change, and this will occur in the long future, but we should not think that will happen in the future. When the man saw his reflection in the lake, he felt very sad when he woke up in , and perhaps see their own reflection of the sorrow arising from making this dream is over. Therefore, Buddhists believe that reincarnation will be ongoing to continue the cause to the destruction phase, which is the way they understand. The cause is the famous 'enlightenment', 'enlightenment' means that continued from the cycle of phase awaken.
The reason I mention this because, if not with the concept of what death means that death is not meaningless ─ ─ , useless, not worth to be discussed, because it is the end. But from the Buddhist point of view, death is not the end, death is not the last time you say goodbye, you should be the last time to say goodbye before the time of enlightenment.
before at that moment, from the Buddhist point of view, there are too many false goodbye. because once born again, I have to make your husband many times, many times you are abandoned, many times you die, I have is live bombing, only to satisfy your appetites; and vice versa. This is the Buddhist way of thinking. This continuity has been there, if you can accept this point of view, we can talk about a little death, this subject has only there will be meaningful only more important. In fact, for esoteric Buddhist, death or dying is a very important moment in life, need to be discussed carefully, because the moment of death, you have the best chance. you get a chance to not because you are a serious seeker, not because you seek it, and then get it. In fact, most of us will not seek death, death comes because it is the whole set part. for esoteric Buddhist, if know how to use this opportunity, it is unusual blessing.
simply tell you why this is a good opportunity. you have had a busy time is not it? in death state, you are forced not busy, because all things are falling apart. your eyes see, your ears hear, your body does not make any sense, these senses are employed in the 'busy' agent. The wearing tie, briefcase, the 'busy' broker, they are now all be fired! them to leave, and unemployed. so there is no account of your broker of any work, you also completely unemployed! At this time, you get a chance, since birth, your minds for the first time in one of the most free, most naked, most powerful state.
me give you a good example, I believe some of you have had such experience. You have been his dream in the fly? In the dream, the body of this agent is unemployed, so to dream a little bit like a small death. This is not my fiction, esoteric scriptures such records, sleep is a little death. sleep, you from the top floor of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking fall, but also can clearly see that under all of the red taxi. Why? because the body of this agent did not in operation, so you can fly, falling from high buildings but not dead. to such a force multiplied by 10 billion, 20 billion times that you are dying or dead time to experience the feeling. For this reason, death Buddhism, Vajrayana Buddhism, in particular, a major issue.
I think to change our attitude toward death is very important. based on a variety of confused and selfish reasons, we are now on death's attitude is negative. The death is the main reason for such negative attitudes are not used, we are not used to someone death, as if this person call out 'Hello', but got no response. we do not get used to the body gradually to stink, but this idea is ridiculous, because this situation occurred in our living at the moment. however, This is a self-challenge, it is difficult to shift from a negative to a positive attitude, or at least not negative to be very difficult, I can not do.
remember when I was ten, was asked to Dilgo Chin Zherenboqie to pray for a deceased. Karmapa with me, and this is the first time I saw the dead. you know, in the Tibetan tradition, we recite the men who died, \Wen taught degrees (the
Book of the Liberation through
Hearing) \stay, I gotta go. 'imitation? to comfort me like he said:' no longer the Scriptures, and go to sleep. 'He left, I tried very brave performance. of course, no electricity at that time, only butter lamps. more and more that night, the butter lamps burn the oil gradually, flame becomes large, shadow swinging. the next morning His Holiness asked me: 'Last night, afraid of?' I think I fooled He.
Then he said: 'ah, very good! you should be more afraid of live talent on!' I think, in many Buddhist countries, the tradition has accompanied the dead, but it is difficult to be accepted. Years later, I The Church (table) Bhutan brother died in a hospital, when I was there. He died because he can not breathe, but to keep the air out, blow out, the photograph of scene that bothers me a long time. do not know remember that the Russian submarine stranded ship something? about 40 crew members drowned, this is also my head wound for several months. to tell you that the discussion of death because this is really important, you should not ignore it. in particular, some of us, like myself, have gone downhill in life. From now on, how much we have been the peak period of life.
Now we have to discuss the details section. For many Buddhist master, especially high, has enlightened masters, the language is very vague. of these great masters, we are fluent in British English, Chinese or other languages, than the whisper of the children is almost the same language. But We have no choice, we certainly need to use language to communicate. for a trained practitioner, for their hearing is, not the slightest difference between life and death. give a good example, in English, goodbye
this word has a specific meaning, Bhutan in Tibetan language or not the word, the Chinese have goodbye
? I think they will say, 'Please walking'. Therefore, the use of human language very different.
This is not a trivial matter, how different cultures interpret the semantic issue is very important. In some cultures, certain words may be rude, but the word in another culture may be acceptable. I have to analyze such as English in the 'attention (attention)', 'note' of the 'attention', in the classical Indian culture, such as Sanskrit, they have different versions, they will say 'give me your? nature', ' give me your compassion 'to the group. If you are British, when I say' your eyes with sludge (here's
mud in your
eyes) ', you know what I'm saying ; or 'break your leg (break
your
legs)', is a toast to wish each other good luck when the meaning. on the practitioner, the difference between life and death not so great. We cheered for a living: 'Oh! a new born baby!' for the noble masters might be: 'Oh! going to die!' different interpretation of the language.
Tibetan Village 'Bardo' word, I think you have heard thousands of times, this is not American jeans brand
GAP! it really means 'interval'. 'interval' is in fact a number of vague expressions , but it is very powerful one. for some people, 'Bardo' be important. 'Bardo' in the end mean? 'between', 'interval' mean. I said ' Bardo 'is a fuzzy vocabulary is because there is no' this' or 'that'. 'interval' means should be in between, but the fact there is no existence of the two. But we have 'interval' that concept, which is explained in the overcast conditions to explain the state of death and dying is a good way. Let me give you a good example.
when we were 'Vipasyana' view of practice, we should live in the present , between living in the past and the future. How ironic that, how stupid! past is gone, the future yet to be seen what is meant by 'now'? live in now, living in the moment, this argument how obscure yet so powerful ! so we need to discuss this 'interval'.
convenience to discuss, we must assume that the beginning and end of the two endpoints in order to present the interval. From a Buddhist point of view, we are going through everything is the yin. is different from that of Yin Fasheng after death, we say that everything is in the shade. So you may ask: 'Well, if everything is in the shade, then the interval of the circumstances leading to the two What end? 'Do not forget, they serve only to facilitate discussion. from the Buddha to enlightenment, which made everything in between yin.
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