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Discovering Buddhism
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Death and Rebirth
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In our busy lives, we are not aware
that we are moving closer to our death
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with each passing moment.
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Often we don't even
want to think about death
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and believe it won't
happen anytime soon.
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Yet, death is definite and
the time of death is uncertain.
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The Buddha says the most intelligent
way to make your life meaningful
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is to remember your death
and not to hide from it.
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If you were to take a trip you'd
prepare for it by looking at a map
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so youÍd know
where you were headed.
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In the same way, we need to think
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about the most important trip of
this lifetime, our death and rebirth.
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Remembering our death is an integral
part of taking the essence of this life.
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There is a profound power
that is awakened in us
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by contemplating death and rebirth,
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we are inspired to practice
the Dharma in everything we do
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and not to waste another moment
of our precious human lives.
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MOTIVATION
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Each of us is going to die,
from the smallest to the largest animal,
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from the poorest to
the richest human being.
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In this program we will examine the fact
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that all of us will eventually have
to face the suffering of death.
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In this we are all alike.
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And the truth is we don't
know when our death will occur.
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With this perspective,
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not knowing which of our actions
will be the very last in this lifetime,
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the practice of motivation
becomes especially important.
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Therefore, before you listen to
the teachings on death and rebirth,
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generate in your mind an
especially strong thought,
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a strong motivation wishing to be
able to use every moment of this life
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in order to make it
purposeful and meaningful
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in order to eventually
be able to liberate
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all living beings
from their suffering
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and bring them to the
happiness of enlightenment.
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TEACHERS
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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
has lived in India as the exiled
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Head of State and Spiritual Leader of the Tibetan people
since the Chinese occupation in1959.
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His Holiness, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize,
is one of the most renowned and beloved
spiritual leaders in the world
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and has traveled over 46 nations as a major
proponent of human rights and world peace.
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It is necessary for
the spiritual practitioner
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to reflect upon impermanence
and particularly death,
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the possibility, inevitability
of death and so on.
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Impermanence in terms of the continuum,
which is the reflection on death.
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So when we talk about
impermanence in the context here,
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primary contemplations are
reflection upon three important facts
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which are that death is inevitable,
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so far as the actual eventuality
of death is concerned,
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it is unpredictable,
it can strike any moment,
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and the third is that
at the time of death,
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only dharma, one's spiritual
practice will be of benefit.
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To take an example
immediately of our own case,
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for example, tonight, this night,
most of us feel that we will be alive.
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However, if you examine this
carefully, we may think that yes,
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I'm healthy, there is no medical or
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physical conditions
that threaten my life
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and even if there are external kind of
natural conditions such as earthquake,
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if earthquake were to
strike California tonight,
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I may be able to escape
and avoid the danger.
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So one can conclude quite
justifiably that ninety-nine per cent,
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that we will be alive.
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However, there is a one per cent.
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We cannot say one hundred per cent with
guarantee that we will be still alive.
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So when the phenomenon
called death really strikes,
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at that instance then no
matter how much wealth you have
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they are of no significance,
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your families and relatives
are of no significance.
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Even the very body that you
have cherished and carried
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and always had with
you, will be no more.
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It will be of no use for you.
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For example, in my own case
while I'm alive I have friends,
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I have people to turn to when in need.
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I can ask people to help me,
people are willing to help me and so on.
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But when I die, at that
point no one can help me.
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It's me, I myself alone who has
to go on the path, who has to travel.
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Then the question arises, what then?
What then after death?
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Here, of course, it brings up the issue
of rebirth, the question of rebirth.
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From the Buddhist point of view,
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rebirth has to be understood in terms
of a continuity of consciousness.
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So one of the foundational premises
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of the Buddhist understanding
of the possibility of rebirth
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is understanding the continuity
of consciousness even after death.
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Buddhists do not accept,
do not posit
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beginning to the
continuum of consciousness
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and Buddhists explains the nature
and existence of consciousness
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purely in terms of
causes and conditions,
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the principle of
causes and conditions.
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So as the text points out,
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the question of where you
will depart after the death
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is influenced and determined
by your own karmic collections,
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not only of this life but
also your past karmic actions.
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And on this point as
Vasubandhu has written that
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because all of us will have
enormous collections of karma
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accumulated over many past lives,
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so all of us will have karmic
potentials to take rebirth
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both in the lower realms of existence
and more fortunate realms of existence.
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Venerable Ribur Rinpoche was born
in Eastern Tibet in 1923.
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At the age of five, he was recognized
by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama as the sixth
incarnation of Sera-mae Ribur Rinpoche.
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He entered Sera Monastic University in Lhasa
and became a Geshe at age twenty-four.
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He meditated and taught Dharma until 1959,
after which he suffered under intense Chinese
oppression for twenty-one years.
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In 1980 he was allowed to perform
some religious activities, and he helped build
a new stupa for Pabongka Rinpoche at Sera.
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Rinpoche teaches throughout
the United States, Asia, and Europe.
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In general, people in the West
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donÍt want to hear about
impermanence and death.
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They become unhappy, they become sad,
therefore better not to hear about it.
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Better not to think, yes, IÍll be
dying sometime in the future,
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but that doesnÍt mean I need to think
about it now, otherwise IÍll get so sad.
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So this is very wrong, very wrong,
because itÍs the opposite way around.
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If we donÍt want to be sad
at the time of death,
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completely overwhelmed with fear,
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with fears not to be
able to do anything,
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the time is right now that we are
alive that we have to think about it.
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In this way, if we are able
to think about it now correctly
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and to make the right preparations,
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it will be like the good
child to go back home,
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weÍll experience a great deal
of happiness at the time of dying.
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Even if youÍre able to
recollect dharma practice,
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if you donÍt recollect
death and impermanence,
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you wonÍt be practicing anyway.
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You will only be thinking,
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oh yes, I must practice dharma
but I can do it tomorrow,
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first I have to do something else,
or I can do it the day after tomorrow
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or I can do it next year and so forth.
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As Lama Tsongkapa says in this
way by thinking, I can do it later,
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the whole life goes by and you
wonÍt be able to achieve anything.
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So even if you are able to
recollect dharma practice
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you wonÍt be able to practice it.
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Therefore if you donÍt
recollect impermanence and death,
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you wonÍt be able to abandon the
fantasies related to this life.
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That means whatever dharma practice
you will do, it wonÍt be pure dharma,
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it wonÍt become dharma practice
and your mind will be trapped
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within the eight worldly dharmas.
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In brief, no matter what kind
of external or internal methods,
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or wherever I go or whatever I do,
they wonÍt prevent me from dying.
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Therefore, definitely,
I am going to die.
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That is certain. IÍm not going
to last in this place.
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So think about the causes,
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think about the causes that bring...
one of the uncommon special causes
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that result in precious human rebirth
is the perfect practice of morality.
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So, now, check in your mental continuum
as the Kadampa Lama says,
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if you want to know
who you were before,
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look at the condition of your life now.
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If you want to know
where youÍre going to be
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or what youÍre going
to be in the future,
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look at the condition
of your mind now.
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So this is very true, the uncommon
condition of achieving
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a precious human rebirth
is the practice of morality.
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If those uncommon
causes such as morality
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have not been sown
in the mental continuum
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there's no way of achieving
the results that one wished for.
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The Advantages of Meditation on Death
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1. You will practice Dharma perfectly.
2. You will destroy delusions and misdeeds.
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3. You will begin practicing Dharma seriously.
4. It will inspire you to practice well.
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5. It will bring your practice to completion.
6. You will live happily and die without regrets.
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Born in Sweden, Venerable Karin Valham met
the Dharma at Kopan Monastery where she ordained.
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For over twenty years she has inspired thousands
of westerners with her teachings on Buddhism at Kopan.
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So this awareness that
my life, my surrounding,
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my experience of this world
can cease, stop at any moment.
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And I have to go alone and leave
all this behind at any moment.
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That daily awareness gives
a certain sense of space.
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Things don't feel so real, so permanent,
so fixed, so dependable anymore.
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The only thing we take
with us is our mind.
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Do we want to keep our mind
diluted, attached, and fearful?
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Is that what we want to take with us?
We have to question ourselves.
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Do I want to take with me anger,
jealousy, resentment, pride,
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and attachment that gives so
much rise to fear and worry?
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Those are not the things that we want
to take with us at the time of death.
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At the time of death, we all want
to have a happy death, isn't it?
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We want to have a peaceful happy death,
so what state of mind is that?
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That's detachment,
compassion, kindness, wisdom.
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If you meditate every day on
your own impermanent nature,
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and that my death can
happen at any time,
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it automatically generates
a state of detachment.
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Because it's like when we travel,
we go from hotel room to hotel room.
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When you travel you are living
in the nature of impermanence.
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You don't become attached
to your hotel rooms,
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you don't regard them as mine,
and try to fix them up,
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you just go, stay and then
you are ok with leaving.
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You don't even think about it, you just
leave it behind and you go to the next.
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That state of mind we need
to cultivate in our daily life.
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So you see, death is definite.
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All of us are going
to have to face death.
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ThereÍs no escape, isnÍt it?
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ThereÍs absolutely no escape, you know?
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Nobody can avoid death,
nobody can run away from death.
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Nobody can escape death,
nobody can bribe death.
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Our death is hundred percent definite.
WeÍre going to go one by one.
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Few years, this room, empty, isnÍt it?
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With fifty years, this room
is definitely empty, I think.
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All of us have died, and gone
to some unknown destination.
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Mind going to some unknown destination,
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and the precious human life, finished.
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No certainty to gain, regain, such
a life situation, opportunity again.
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It took us many years
to get to this point, you know?
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And, who knows whether even
we will be born in a place
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where we can practice dharma next life.
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Then you feel this urgency,
not to postpone dharma practice,
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but to start from now.
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Say how can I integrate
dharma into my life now,
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to make it meaningful from now on,
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because my death
can happen at any time.
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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
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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
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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
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Until the thought of
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impermanence and death
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arises in your mind,
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the entire path of Dharma
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is blocked.
-Geshe Potowa
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STUDENTS
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What does DEATH AND REBIRTH
mean to you?
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I think a main motivation came
from my work as an ambulance driver.
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Where I saw many people dying
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and I realized that people can die.
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I saw immense suffering and
I didnÍt see any peaceful death.
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I read about peaceful deaths in books
but this is not how people actually die.
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They die screaming and full of fears,
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ItÍs just horrible.
ItÍs nightmares.
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And so I remember especially,
I went once to a case
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where a young guy,
the same age as me,
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was stabbed down with a knife.
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He was lying there in his blood,
and screaming. He was dying.
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And before, I was working on a farm,
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I went to the slaughterhouse
and I saw pigs dying,
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and I thought, heÍs dying like
these pigs. There is no difference.
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But something in me knew
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that itÍs not necessary
to die like this, itÍs a mistake.
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So, my practices and my life as
a monk is a preparation for my death.
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Not only for me to have
a good death but also
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to reach a level of practice where
I can help other people to die.
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That corpse they talk about
is the very body you wear, meditator.
- Jetsun Milarepa
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The thing is that they always say
you can die at any time you know.
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And as a nurse, IÍve nursed
people my own age, my own age,
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who are dying of cancer,
under terrible conditions,
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terrible suffering and
their whole body has changed
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from what they
usually recognize it as.
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And I look at them and I think,
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‘gosh, that could be me,
that could really be me’.
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But I think now whatÍs
important is that,
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every moment is an opportunity
if you're still alive.
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I think thatÍs the point, that
every moment is so precious.
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And we donÍt know how many
moments we have left, so,
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letÍs try to do the best
we can with each moment
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and it makes life much more
pleasant and so much more meaningful.
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And, thatÍs the other thing
about people who are dying.
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Then, they start to focus on
was their life meaningful.
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And itÍs important
to focus on that now,
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while we have time
to do something about it,
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rather than wait until
weÍve only got two weeks left,
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and we donÍt have any time to do
all the things we really wanted to do.
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So, thatÍs why I guess
IÍm more motivated now.
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We want things to stay
the way they are,
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they can never be that way
because they never are that way,
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so that reality really hit me.
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I think if people die with
a really happy frame of mind,
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that they have more chance of
going to a higher, a better rebirth.
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Not going into lower realms, because,
it would be so easy to die with fear
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and then IÍm sure that wouldnÍt
be a very good migration.
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Cause you look at the animal
realm, and itÍs all about fear.
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All the animals are in fear.
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So thatÍs very easy for me
to believe in the animal realm,
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and being born in the animal realm,
because if people die in fear,
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thatÍs probably where
theyÍre going to go.
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I was with a man
who was a fisherman,
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and you could just see that
he had visions, like the lamas say,
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of all the animals that he had killed.
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And his eyes were going all over
the place and he was terrified.
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The other thing is that I try
to get people to generate
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some kind of love in their heart,
love and appreciate for their family.
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Sometimes they donÍt feel
good about themselves.
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They feel that theyÍve done nothing
good in their lives and I say well,
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you raised children,
you raised a family,
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and youÍve done
a good job with this.
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They should rejoice
in what they have done.
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What theyÍve done
thatÍs good in their life.
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Focus on that, thatÍs the
important thing before they die,
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it's focus on the good things.
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And if they have regrets, then
they see those regrets as positive,
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as something that theyÍve
learned in this life,
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and even rejoice that
theyÍve learned that,
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They should stay positive.
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There was a man from Burma, and
he had a wife and two daughters,
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and he was looked after by
a hospice service in the city
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and Amitaba was called in because
we were the only Buddhist service.
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So, he took his bed, a mattress, and
put it in his shrine room in the house.
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And he put his head towards
his shrine and he told his wife
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‘I don’t want much fuss over me,
leave me alone, I’ve got to concentrate now
because I’m going to die.’
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And, all the public services
who were looking after him,
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never had seen this before,
because usually, people are so scared
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and they need so many drugs,
especially mental drugs,
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to calm people down,
because theyÍre terrified.
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But he didnÍt need anything, and all
the other workers were so surprised,
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‘he doesn’t need any drugs, he’s so calm’.
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And everybody
who came into the house
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felt so peaceful, so unique,
so unbelievable.
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And his wife and his
daughters looked after him.
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It was like he was in his
last retreat, before he died.
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And he was just a model for
everyone who came into the house.
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Everyone spoke so highly of him,
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and had never seen
anything so peaceful before.
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Please dedicate the positive energy generated
by listening to these teachings,
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so you can quickly attain Enlightenment
for the benefit of all beings.
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