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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:01:07.734 --> 00:01:13.893 Discovering Buddhism 00:01:19.245 --> 00:01:24.573 Death and Rebirth 00:01:28.387 --> 00:01:32.354 In our busy lives, we are not aware that we are moving closer to our death 00:01:32.354 --> 00:01:34.870 with each passing moment. 00:01:34.870 --> 00:01:37.419 Often we don't even want to think about death 00:01:37.419 --> 00:01:40.322 and believe it won't happen anytime soon. 00:01:40.322 --> 00:01:45.645 Yet, death is definite and the time of death is uncertain. 00:01:45.645 --> 00:01:49.774 The Buddha says the most intelligent way to make your life meaningful 00:01:49.774 --> 00:01:53.548 is to remember your death and not to hide from it. 00:01:53.548 --> 00:01:57.096 If you were to take a trip you'd prepare for it by looking at a map 00:01:57.096 --> 00:01:59.806 so youÍd know where you were headed. 00:01:59.806 --> 00:02:02.322 In the same way, we need to think 00:02:02.322 --> 00:02:07.096 about the most important trip of this lifetime, our death and rebirth. 00:02:07.096 --> 00:02:11.516 Remembering our death is an integral part of taking the essence of this life. 00:02:11.516 --> 00:02:14.129 There is a profound power that is awakened in us 00:02:14.129 --> 00:02:16.548 by contemplating death and rebirth, 00:02:16.548 --> 00:02:19.258 we are inspired to practice the Dharma in everything we do 00:02:19.258 --> 00:02:23.161 and not to waste another moment of our precious human lives. 00:02:24.510 --> 00:02:33.167 MOTIVATION 00:02:35.354 --> 00:02:40.838 Each of us is going to die, from the smallest to the largest animal, 00:02:40.838 --> 00:02:44.451 from the poorest to the richest human being. 00:02:44.451 --> 00:02:47.225 In this program we will examine the fact 00:02:47.225 --> 00:02:51.645 that all of us will eventually have to face the suffering of death. 00:02:51.645 --> 00:02:54.322 In this we are all alike. 00:02:54.322 --> 00:02:58.548 And the truth is we don't know when our death will occur. 00:02:58.548 --> 00:03:01.129 With this perspective, 00:03:01.129 --> 00:03:05.129 not knowing which of our actions will be the very last in this lifetime, 00:03:05.129 --> 00:03:09.677 the practice of motivation becomes especially important. 00:03:09.677 --> 00:03:14.096 Therefore, before you listen to the teachings on death and rebirth, 00:03:14.096 --> 00:03:18.064 generate in your mind an especially strong thought, 00:03:18.064 --> 00:03:25.322 a strong motivation wishing to be able to use every moment of this life 00:03:25.322 --> 00:03:28.774 in order to make it purposeful and meaningful 00:03:28.774 --> 00:03:31.322 in order to eventually be able to liberate 00:03:31.322 --> 00:03:33.838 all living beings from their suffering 00:03:33.838 --> 00:03:36.612 and bring them to the happiness of enlightenment. 00:03:38.343 --> 00:03:45.485 TEACHERS 00:03:57.948 --> 00:04:01.904 His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso has lived in India as the exiled 00:04:01.904 --> 00:04:07.301 Head of State and Spiritual Leader of the Tibetan people since the Chinese occupation in1959. 00:04:07.301 --> 00:04:11.686 His Holiness, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is one of the most renowned and beloved spiritual leaders in the world 00:04:11.686 --> 00:04:15.823 and has traveled over 46 nations as a major proponent of human rights and world peace. 00:04:28.419 --> 00:04:31.193 It is necessary for the spiritual practitioner 00:04:31.193 --> 00:04:34.709 to reflect upon impermanence and particularly death, 00:04:34.709 --> 00:04:40.096 the possibility, inevitability of death and so on. 00:04:40.096 --> 00:04:45.161 Impermanence in terms of the continuum, which is the reflection on death. 00:04:45.161 --> 00:04:48.032 So when we talk about impermanence in the context here, 00:04:48.032 --> 00:04:55.483 primary contemplations are reflection upon three important facts 00:04:55.483 --> 00:04:59.483 which are that death is inevitable, 00:04:59.483 --> 00:05:05.838 so far as the actual eventuality of death is concerned, 00:05:05.838 --> 00:05:08.677 it is unpredictable, it can strike any moment, 00:05:08.677 --> 00:05:12.193 and the third is that at the time of death, 00:05:12.193 --> 00:05:16.709 only dharma, one's spiritual practice will be of benefit. 00:05:16.709 --> 00:05:20.935 To take an example immediately of our own case, 00:05:20.935 --> 00:05:31.580 for example, tonight, this night, most of us feel that we will be alive. 00:05:31.580 --> 00:05:38.354 However, if you examine this carefully, we may think that yes, 00:05:38.354 --> 00:05:41.645 I'm healthy, there is no medical or 00:05:41.645 --> 00:05:45.516 physical conditions that threaten my life 00:05:45.516 --> 00:05:52.258 and even if there are external kind of natural conditions such as earthquake, 00:05:52.258 --> 00:05:56.290 if earthquake were to strike California tonight, 00:05:56.290 --> 00:06:00.870 I may be able to escape and avoid the danger. 00:06:00.870 --> 00:06:06.258 So one can conclude quite justifiably that ninety-nine per cent, 00:06:06.258 --> 00:06:09.967 that we will be alive. 00:06:09.967 --> 00:06:12.838 However, there is a one per cent. 00:06:12.838 --> 00:06:17.935 We cannot say one hundred per cent with guarantee that we will be still alive. 00:06:17.935 --> 00:06:22.774 So when the phenomenon called death really strikes, 00:06:22.774 --> 00:06:27.258 at that instance then no matter how much wealth you have 00:06:27.258 --> 00:06:30.000 they are of no significance, 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.709 your families and relatives are of no significance. 00:06:33.709 --> 00:06:37.806 Even the very body that you have cherished and carried 00:06:37.806 --> 00:06:42.032 and always had with you, will be no more. 00:06:42.032 --> 00:06:45.000 It will be of no use for you. 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:49.709 For example, in my own case while I'm alive I have friends, 00:06:49.709 --> 00:06:53.161 I have people to turn to when in need. 00:06:53.161 --> 00:06:56.935 I can ask people to help me, people are willing to help me and so on. 00:06:56.935 --> 00:07:00.935 But when I die, at that point no one can help me. 00:07:00.935 --> 00:07:07.129 It's me, I myself alone who has to go on the path, who has to travel. 00:07:07.129 --> 00:07:13.258 Then the question arises, what then? What then after death? 00:07:13.258 --> 00:07:19.451 Here, of course, it brings up the issue of rebirth, the question of rebirth. 00:07:19.451 --> 00:07:21.935 From the Buddhist point of view, 00:07:21.935 --> 00:07:26.645 rebirth has to be understood in terms of a continuity of consciousness. 00:07:26.645 --> 00:07:30.096 So one of the foundational premises 00:07:30.096 --> 00:07:33.516 of the Buddhist understanding of the possibility of rebirth 00:07:33.516 --> 00:07:38.290 is understanding the continuity of consciousness even after death. 00:07:38.290 --> 00:07:41.225 Buddhists do not accept, do not posit 00:07:41.225 --> 00:07:44.129 beginning to the continuum of consciousness 00:07:44.129 --> 00:07:47.387 and Buddhists explains the nature and existence of consciousness 00:07:47.387 --> 00:07:50.129 purely in terms of causes and conditions, 00:07:50.129 --> 00:07:52.870 the principle of causes and conditions. 00:07:52.870 --> 00:07:57.451 So as the text points out, 00:07:57.451 --> 00:08:02.483 the question of where you will depart after the death 00:08:02.483 --> 00:08:08.806 is influenced and determined by your own karmic collections, 00:08:08.806 --> 00:08:13.774 not only of this life but also your past karmic actions. 00:08:13.774 --> 00:08:21.354 And on this point as Vasubandhu has written that 00:08:21.354 --> 00:08:27.516 because all of us will have enormous collections of karma 00:08:27.516 --> 00:08:31.258 accumulated over many past lives, 00:08:31.258 --> 00:08:36.129 so all of us will have karmic potentials to take rebirth 00:08:36.129 --> 00:08:42.000 both in the lower realms of existence and more fortunate realms of existence. 00:08:55.945 --> 00:08:57.923 Venerable Ribur Rinpoche was born in Eastern Tibet in 1923. 00:08:57.923 --> 00:09:02.399 At the age of five, he was recognized by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama as the sixth incarnation of Sera-mae Ribur Rinpoche. 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:06.342 He entered Sera Monastic University in Lhasa and became a Geshe at age twenty-four. 00:09:06.342 --> 00:09:11.282 He meditated and taught Dharma until 1959, after which he suffered under intense Chinese oppression for twenty-one years. 00:09:11.282 --> 00:09:15.641 In 1980 he was allowed to perform some religious activities, and he helped build a new stupa for Pabongka Rinpoche at Sera. 00:09:15.641 --> 00:09:18.076 Rinpoche teaches throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. 00:09:24.096 --> 00:09:27.064 In general, people in the West 00:09:27.064 --> 00:09:31.838 donÍt want to hear about impermanence and death. 00:09:31.838 --> 00:09:37.580 They become unhappy, they become sad, therefore better not to hear about it. 00:09:37.580 --> 00:09:42.612 Better not to think, yes, IÍll be dying sometime in the future, 00:09:42.612 --> 00:09:50.580 but that doesnÍt mean I need to think about it now, otherwise IÍll get so sad. 00:09:50.580 --> 00:09:55.258 So this is very wrong, very wrong, because itÍs the opposite way around. 00:09:55.258 --> 00:09:58.322 If we donÍt want to be sad at the time of death, 00:09:58.322 --> 00:10:00.838 completely overwhelmed with fear, 00:10:00.838 --> 00:10:04.032 with fears not to be able to do anything, 00:10:04.032 --> 00:10:07.774 the time is right now that we are alive that we have to think about it. 00:10:07.806 --> 00:10:11.741 In this way, if we are able to think about it now correctly 00:10:11.741 --> 00:10:14.354 and to make the right preparations, 00:10:14.354 --> 00:10:18.096 it will be like the good child to go back home, 00:10:18.096 --> 00:10:23.290 weÍll experience a great deal of happiness at the time of dying. 00:10:23.290 --> 00:10:26.032 Even if youÍre able to recollect dharma practice, 00:10:26.032 --> 00:10:30.000 if you donÍt recollect death and impermanence, 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:32.612 you wonÍt be practicing anyway. 00:10:32.612 --> 00:10:34.774 You will only be thinking, 00:10:34.774 --> 00:10:37.354 oh yes, I must practice dharma but I can do it tomorrow, 00:10:37.354 --> 00:10:40.258 first I have to do something else, or I can do it the day after tomorrow 00:10:40.258 --> 00:10:43.161 or I can do it next year and so forth. 00:10:43.161 --> 00:10:49.225 As Lama Tsongkapa says in this way by thinking, I can do it later, 00:10:49.225 --> 00:10:54.290 the whole life goes by and you wonÍt be able to achieve anything. 00:10:54.290 --> 00:10:57.838 So even if you are able to recollect dharma practice 00:10:57.838 --> 00:11:00.290 you wonÍt be able to practice it. 00:11:00.290 --> 00:11:03.967 Therefore if you donÍt recollect impermanence and death, 00:11:03.967 --> 00:11:10.935 you wonÍt be able to abandon the fantasies related to this life. 00:11:10.935 --> 00:11:16.806 That means whatever dharma practice you will do, it wonÍt be pure dharma, 00:11:16.806 --> 00:11:22.677 it wonÍt become dharma practice and your mind will be trapped 00:11:22.677 --> 00:11:25.580 within the eight worldly dharmas. 00:11:25.580 --> 00:11:30.387 In brief, no matter what kind of external or internal methods, 00:11:30.387 --> 00:11:36.064 or wherever I go or whatever I do, they wonÍt prevent me from dying. 00:11:36.064 --> 00:11:39.774 Therefore, definitely, I am going to die. 00:11:39.774 --> 00:11:44.870 That is certain. IÍm not going to last in this place. 00:11:44.870 --> 00:11:47.419 So think about the causes, 00:11:47.419 --> 00:11:53.741 think about the causes that bring... one of the uncommon special causes 00:11:53.741 --> 00:12:02.193 that result in precious human rebirth is the perfect practice of morality. 00:12:02.193 --> 00:12:10.387 So, now, check in your mental continuum as the Kadampa Lama says, 00:12:10.387 --> 00:12:14.806 if you want to know who you were before, 00:12:14.838 --> 00:12:18.677 look at the condition of your life now. 00:12:18.677 --> 00:12:21.806 If you want to know where youÍre going to be 00:12:21.806 --> 00:12:24.677 or what youÍre going to be in the future, 00:12:24.677 --> 00:12:28.129 look at the condition of your mind now. 00:12:28.129 --> 00:12:32.677 So this is very true, the uncommon condition of achieving 00:12:32.677 --> 00:12:36.838 a precious human rebirth is the practice of morality. 00:12:36.838 --> 00:12:40.193 If those uncommon causes such as morality 00:12:40.193 --> 00:12:43.870 have not been sown in the mental continuum 00:12:43.870 --> 00:12:48.129 there's no way of achieving the results that one wished for. 00:12:52.539 --> 00:12:57.744 The Advantages of Meditation on Death 00:12:58.999 --> 00:13:05.330 1. You will practice Dharma perfectly. 2. You will destroy delusions and misdeeds. 00:13:06.087 --> 00:13:13.082 3. You will begin practicing Dharma seriously. 4. It will inspire you to practice well. 00:13:13.595 --> 00:13:20.805 5. It will bring your practice to completion. 6. You will live happily and die without regrets. 00:13:39.183 --> 00:13:45.154 Born in Sweden, Venerable Karin Valham met the Dharma at Kopan Monastery where she ordained. 00:13:45.154 --> 00:13:51.129 For over twenty years she has inspired thousands of westerners with her teachings on Buddhism at Kopan. 00:13:53.774 --> 00:13:58.935 So this awareness that my life, my surrounding, 00:13:58.935 --> 00:14:05.774 my experience of this world can cease, stop at any moment. 00:14:05.774 --> 00:14:10.709 And I have to go alone and leave all this behind at any moment. 00:14:10.709 --> 00:14:15.870 That daily awareness gives a certain sense of space. 00:14:15.870 --> 00:14:26.516 Things don't feel so real, so permanent, so fixed, so dependable anymore. 00:14:26.516 --> 00:14:33.967 The only thing we take with us is our mind. 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:38.935 Do we want to keep our mind diluted, attached, and fearful? 00:14:38.935 --> 00:14:43.741 Is that what we want to take with us? We have to question ourselves. 00:14:43.741 --> 00:14:49.935 Do I want to take with me anger, jealousy, resentment, pride, 00:14:49.935 --> 00:14:55.645 and attachment that gives so much rise to fear and worry? 00:14:55.645 --> 00:15:00.709 Those are not the things that we want to take with us at the time of death. 00:15:00.709 --> 00:15:06.064 At the time of death, we all want to have a happy death, isn't it? 00:15:06.064 --> 00:15:11.612 We want to have a peaceful happy death, so what state of mind is that? 00:15:11.612 --> 00:15:19.387 That's detachment, compassion, kindness, wisdom. 00:15:19.387 --> 00:15:24.225 If you meditate every day on your own impermanent nature, 00:15:24.225 --> 00:15:28.064 and that my death can happen at any time, 00:15:28.064 --> 00:15:31.580 it automatically generates a state of detachment. 00:15:31.580 --> 00:15:37.516 Because it's like when we travel, we go from hotel room to hotel room. 00:15:37.516 --> 00:15:42.451 When you travel you are living in the nature of impermanence. 00:15:42.451 --> 00:15:45.258 You don't become attached to your hotel rooms, 00:15:45.258 --> 00:15:48.806 you don't regard them as mine, and try to fix them up, 00:15:48.806 --> 00:15:54.129 you just go, stay and then you are ok with leaving. 00:15:54.129 --> 00:15:58.645 You don't even think about it, you just leave it behind and you go to the next. 00:15:58.645 --> 00:16:02.548 That state of mind we need to cultivate in our daily life. 00:16:02.548 --> 00:16:05.806 So you see, death is definite. 00:16:05.806 --> 00:16:11.903 All of us are going to have to face death. 00:16:11.903 --> 00:16:15.193 ThereÍs no escape, isnÍt it? 00:16:15.193 --> 00:16:18.419 ThereÍs absolutely no escape, you know? 00:16:18.419 --> 00:16:23.387 Nobody can avoid death, nobody can run away from death. 00:16:23.387 --> 00:16:30.709 Nobody can escape death, nobody can bribe death. 00:16:30.709 --> 00:16:36.483 Our death is hundred percent definite. WeÍre going to go one by one. 00:16:36.483 --> 00:16:41.064 Few years, this room, empty, isnÍt it? 00:16:41.096 --> 00:16:45.870 With fifty years, this room is definitely empty, I think. 00:16:45.870 --> 00:16:52.091 All of us have died, and gone to some unknown destination. 00:16:52.091 --> 00:16:55.451 Mind going to some unknown destination, 00:16:55.451 --> 00:16:58.645 and the precious human life, finished. 00:16:58.645 --> 00:17:05.354 No certainty to gain, regain, such a life situation, opportunity again. 00:17:05.354 --> 00:17:11.225 It took us many years to get to this point, you know? 00:17:11.225 --> 00:17:15.354 And, who knows whether even we will be born in a place 00:17:15.354 --> 00:17:18.806 where we can practice dharma next life. 00:17:18.806 --> 00:17:25.096 Then you feel this urgency, not to postpone dharma practice, 00:17:25.096 --> 00:17:27.096 but to start from now. 00:17:27.096 --> 00:17:29.903 Say how can I integrate dharma into my life now, 00:17:29.903 --> 00:17:32.258 to make it meaningful from now on, 00:17:32.258 --> 00:17:35.838 because my death can happen at any time. 00:17:40.001 --> 00:17:52.787 The 9 Steps of Death Meditation A. Death is Certain 1. The Lord of Death is unstoppable 2. Life leaks away continually 3. There is not enough time to practice 00:17:53.582 --> 00:18:05.168 The 9 Steps of Death Meditation B. The Time of Death is Uncertain 1. No telling when it would happen 2. No telling how it would happen 3. The body is fragile 00:18:07.369 --> 00:18:18.635 The 9 Steps of Death Meditation C. Only Dharma Can Help When You Die 1. Wealth cannot help 2. Friends and family cannot help 3. Your body cannot help 00:18:21.143 --> 00:18:24.710 Until the thought of 00:18:25.229 --> 00:18:29.706 impermanence and death 00:18:30.765 --> 00:18:35.218 arises in your mind, 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:40.000 the entire path of Dharma 00:18:41.530 --> 00:18:46.393 is blocked. -Geshe Potowa 00:18:49.145 --> 00:18:52.081 STUDENTS 00:18:53.655 --> 00:18:57.981 What does DEATH AND REBIRTH mean to you? 00:19:02.451 --> 00:19:12.193 I think a main motivation came from my work as an ambulance driver. 00:19:12.193 --> 00:19:16.322 Where I saw many people dying 00:19:16.322 --> 00:19:28.032 and I realized that people can die. 00:19:28.032 --> 00:19:39.064 I saw immense suffering and I didnÍt see any peaceful death. 00:19:39.064 --> 00:19:44.354 I read about peaceful deaths in books but this is not how people actually die. 00:19:44.354 --> 00:19:48.322 They die screaming and full of fears, 00:19:48.322 --> 00:19:52.774 ItÍs just horrible. ItÍs nightmares. 00:19:52.774 --> 00:19:59.161 And so I remember especially, I went once to a case 00:19:59.161 --> 00:20:02.387 where a young guy, the same age as me, 00:20:02.387 --> 00:20:05.258 was stabbed down with a knife. 00:20:05.290 --> 00:20:12.870 He was lying there in his blood, and screaming. He was dying. 00:20:12.870 --> 00:20:18.193 And before, I was working on a farm, 00:20:18.193 --> 00:20:23.741 I went to the slaughterhouse and I saw pigs dying, 00:20:23.741 --> 00:20:29.483 and I thought, heÍs dying like these pigs. There is no difference. 00:20:29.483 --> 00:20:32.935 But something in me knew 00:20:32.935 --> 00:20:43.225 that itÍs not necessary to die like this, itÍs a mistake. 00:20:43.225 --> 00:20:51.645 So, my practices and my life as a monk is a preparation for my death. 00:20:51.645 --> 00:20:56.870 Not only for me to have a good death but also 00:20:56.870 --> 00:21:02.000 to reach a level of practice where I can help other people to die. 00:21:04.018 --> 00:21:16.466 That corpse they talk about is the very body you wear, meditator. - Jetsun Milarepa 00:21:19.870 --> 00:21:23.419 The thing is that they always say you can die at any time you know. 00:21:23.419 --> 00:21:27.032 And as a nurse, IÍve nursed people my own age, my own age, 00:21:27.032 --> 00:21:30.064 who are dying of cancer, under terrible conditions, 00:21:30.064 --> 00:21:32.741 terrible suffering and their whole body has changed 00:21:32.741 --> 00:21:35.451 from what they usually recognize it as. 00:21:35.451 --> 00:21:38.096 And I look at them and I think, 00:21:38.096 --> 00:21:41.709 ‘gosh, that could be me, that could really be me’. 00:21:41.709 --> 00:21:47.741 But I think now whatÍs important is that, 00:21:47.741 --> 00:21:51.774 every moment is an opportunity if you're still alive. 00:21:51.774 --> 00:21:55.645 I think thatÍs the point, that every moment is so precious. 00:21:55.645 --> 00:22:00.870 And we donÍt know how many moments we have left, so, 00:22:00.870 --> 00:22:04.516 letÍs try to do the best we can with each moment 00:22:04.516 --> 00:22:11.032 and it makes life much more pleasant and so much more meaningful. 00:22:11.032 --> 00:22:14.419 And, thatÍs the other thing about people who are dying. 00:22:14.419 --> 00:22:17.709 Then, they start to focus on was their life meaningful. 00:22:17.709 --> 00:22:20.612 And itÍs important to focus on that now, 00:22:20.612 --> 00:22:23.129 while we have time to do something about it, 00:22:23.129 --> 00:22:26.645 rather than wait until weÍve only got two weeks left, 00:22:26.645 --> 00:22:30.677 and we donÍt have any time to do all the things we really wanted to do. 00:22:30.677 --> 00:22:36.677 So, thatÍs why I guess IÍm more motivated now. 00:22:36.677 --> 00:22:39.193 We want things to stay the way they are, 00:22:39.225 --> 00:22:42.193 they can never be that way because they never are that way, 00:22:42.193 --> 00:22:44.838 so that reality really hit me. 00:22:44.838 --> 00:22:48.354 I think if people die with a really happy frame of mind, 00:22:48.354 --> 00:22:53.225 that they have more chance of going to a higher, a better rebirth. 00:22:53.225 --> 00:22:58.838 Not going into lower realms, because, it would be so easy to die with fear 00:22:58.870 --> 00:23:02.193 and then IÍm sure that wouldnÍt be a very good migration. 00:23:02.193 --> 00:23:05.225 Cause you look at the animal realm, and itÍs all about fear. 00:23:05.225 --> 00:23:07.290 All the animals are in fear. 00:23:07.290 --> 00:23:10.322 So thatÍs very easy for me to believe in the animal realm, 00:23:10.322 --> 00:23:14.129 and being born in the animal realm, because if people die in fear, 00:23:14.161 --> 00:23:16.741 thatÍs probably where theyÍre going to go. 00:23:16.741 --> 00:23:19.387 I was with a man who was a fisherman, 00:23:19.387 --> 00:23:22.580 and you could just see that he had visions, like the lamas say, 00:23:22.580 --> 00:23:25.322 of all the animals that he had killed. 00:23:25.322 --> 00:23:29.000 And his eyes were going all over the place and he was terrified. 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:32.322 The other thing is that I try to get people to generate 00:23:32.322 --> 00:23:37.838 some kind of love in their heart, love and appreciate for their family. 00:23:37.838 --> 00:23:40.709 Sometimes they donÍt feel good about themselves. 00:23:40.709 --> 00:23:43.967 They feel that theyÍve done nothing good in their lives and I say well, 00:23:43.967 --> 00:23:46.677 you raised children, you raised a family, 00:23:46.677 --> 00:23:49.387 and youÍve done a good job with this. 00:23:49.387 --> 00:23:51.580 They should rejoice in what they have done. 00:23:51.580 --> 00:23:53.838 What theyÍve done thatÍs good in their life. 00:23:53.838 --> 00:23:56.677 Focus on that, thatÍs the important thing before they die, 00:23:56.677 --> 00:23:58.741 it's focus on the good things. 00:23:58.741 --> 00:24:01.709 And if they have regrets, then they see those regrets as positive, 00:24:01.709 --> 00:24:04.193 as something that theyÍve learned in this life, 00:24:04.193 --> 00:24:06.903 and even rejoice that theyÍve learned that, 00:24:09.741 --> 00:24:12.225 They should stay positive. 00:24:12.225 --> 00:24:17.741 There was a man from Burma, and he had a wife and two daughters, 00:24:17.741 --> 00:24:22.677 and he was looked after by a hospice service in the city 00:24:22.677 --> 00:24:28.967 and Amitaba was called in because we were the only Buddhist service. 00:24:28.967 --> 00:24:36.419 So, he took his bed, a mattress, and put it in his shrine room in the house. 00:24:36.419 --> 00:24:41.161 And he put his head towards his shrine and he told his wife 00:24:41.161 --> 00:24:48.387 ‘I don’t want much fuss over me, leave me alone, I’ve got to concentrate now because I’m going to die.’ 00:24:48.387 --> 00:24:53.322 And, all the public services who were looking after him, 00:24:53.322 --> 00:24:57.161 never had seen this before, because usually, people are so scared 00:24:57.161 --> 00:25:00.451 and they need so many drugs, especially mental drugs, 00:25:00.451 --> 00:25:03.838 to calm people down, because theyÍre terrified. 00:25:03.838 --> 00:25:08.322 But he didnÍt need anything, and all the other workers were so surprised, 00:25:08.322 --> 00:25:10.645 ‘he doesn’t need any drugs, he’s so calm’. 00:25:10.645 --> 00:25:13.225 And everybody who came into the house 00:25:13.225 --> 00:25:18.225 felt so peaceful, so unique, so unbelievable. 00:25:18.225 --> 00:25:21.741 And his wife and his daughters looked after him. 00:25:21.741 --> 00:25:26.161 It was like he was in his last retreat, before he died. 00:25:26.161 --> 00:25:30.935 And he was just a model for everyone who came into the house. 00:25:30.935 --> 00:25:33.451 Everyone spoke so highly of him, 00:25:33.483 --> 00:25:36.967 and had never seen anything so peaceful before. 00:25:48.892 --> 00:25:54.286 Please dedicate the positive energy generated by listening to these teachings, 00:25:54.653 --> 00:25:58.401 so you can quickly attain Enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. 26192

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