Learning the
Dao is difficult when people are in the huge wealth and are the nobility. As we
have mentioned that there are four noble truths. That is suffering,
accumulation, elimination and Dao.
The four kinds of basic suffering
There are
four kinds of basic suffering. That is the suffering of life, of aging, of
illness, and of death. No one could avoid such four kinds of suffering in its
whole life. What is the suffering of life? Many people are suffering how to
survive in the situation of war. And more than half population in the world is
suffering how to survive in the pressure of potential attacking from the
contiguous countries, or in the situation of un-equal and of un-peaceful
society.
More than
half population in the world almost has no chance to hearing the Dao said by
Buddha, let alone to learn the Dao. Once they could have the chance to hear the
Dao said by Buddha, they would be willing to learn the Dao and correspond to
the compassion of Buddha, then, to arise the personal and natural wisdom. They
then would have the chance to liberate from the suffering of life.
What is the
suffering of aging? There is a saying,” we are beginning to walk toward the
tomb from our birth.” If there is no accident in life, we would be aging
finally. Do you know how the suffering of aging? Our brain nerves begin to
degenerate. Our physical strength and our brain strength are not as good as
before year by year. Meanwhile, we might be suffering the chronic.
To eat the
medicine every day makes our head dizzy and we are afraid of falling. Our
appetite is getting worse. We often suffer from insomnia because of illness or
chronic. The worst is that we might have the loneliness and melancholy, which
could increase our feeling of suffering. And we might lie on the bed, can not
move by ourselves any more, and have to be taken care by others people in our
daily life, let alone the pain in cancer or the suffering of dialysis, if we
have cancer or the illness of dialysis.
What is the
suffering of illness? Illness is not belonging to the elder. Each age of human
being could have the illness. A lot of young man or woman is suffering the
illness of diabetes, cardiovascular, dialysis or cancer. Most of them could
face the disease in positive mind. However, some of them are suffering the
melancholy and choose to end their life so as to end their suffering.
For the
young and healthy people, they could not feel or experience the suffering as
said above, let alone the suffering of death. What they might feel or
experience is the suffering of life.
Four Key Elements to Form Our Body
About the
suffering of death, we have to mention about the four key elements to form our
body. That is the land, the water, the fire and the wind as follows.
The land
means hard or solid. In our body are bone, nail and hair.
The water
means liquid and flowing. In our body are blood, urine, tears, nasal fluid and
saliva.
The fire
means temperature. In our body is the body temperature. So we might have fever,
or feel cold, or feel hot.
The wind
means gas, air and breath. In our body is respiratory system. If we make the
meditation in seat or practice the qigong, we could feel the gas flow in our
body. It can cause our body or limbs to move or rotate involuntarily. That's
because our inner airflow is running. It’s normal. So, don’t worry about the
change in the moment.
When we are
dying, the four key elements of us would be in the state of decomposition. At
the time, we would be in the serious suffering. In the beginning, we would feel
the severe pressure in our body, so, we would become restless. Then, we would
feel very cold. Sometimes, we would feel very hot. We can not eat anything
anymore. If we do not have any belief, or we can not accept the coming of
death, and we still have the conscious, we would feel the serious suffering
because we know that we would depart from our family members and to said good
bye to this world. This is the suffering of death.
Those who
have no wisdom do not care about the suffering as said, let alone they do not
understand the suffering as said.
No matter rich or poor persons, they have
chance to learn the Dao.
If one
person wants to enter the Dao, he must have felt the suffering as said in life.
Meanwhile, he must have felt that the suffering has being accumulated at each
moment, or day by day, so that they would have a thought, a self perceiving, to
ask for the elimination of the suffering and the liberation from the suffering.
This is the motivation, cause and condition for learning the Dao.
Therefore,
it is possible for them to inspire their Bodhi-heart, go into the path of
Buddha, then, to attain the Buddhahood after learning the Dao. No matter the
rich people or the poor people, once they have felt the suffering in life, they
would be willing to go into the path of Buddha, the Dao defined by Buddha,
which you can find and read in the chapter 2. (Chapter
2)A Brief Talk about The Scripture of Forty-Two Chapters Said by Buddha
Most of the wealthy and the nobility persons have
less chance to liberate from suffering in life and death.
Those who
are in the huge wealth and are the nobility are lack of such feeling of
suffering in life, because they are living in the very comfortable environment.
Meanwhile, their relatives and friends might be also living in the same way. In
other word, they are lack of the environment and motivation for learning the
Dao.
According to
my observation from the history, most of the people who are in the huge wealth
and are in the nobility, their life is short and die early, which we can find
in the royal family or the official family. In other word, the huge wealth and
nobility for them are very short. Why?
In their
environment, what they have focused on is not the suffering of life, but, how
to obtain the more power, official position and wealth. In other word, it is an
environment which is full of fighting for the power and of demanding for the
profit. Under the circumstance, how could they be longevity? A lot of people is
murdered, or die in disease, because of the heart and the mind of the greedy
and hatred from themselves and from others people.
Who would have more chance to achieve the
Buddhahood?
In Buddhism
and In Daoism, the founder and the successor are longevity. The Buddha
Sakyamuni lives to 80 years old. When he is dying, he still teaches the
Buddha-law for his disciples. His successor Dajiaye and Ananda live to more
than 100 years old. They are neither being hanged up because of crime or sin
nor being murdered. On the contrary, they have died naturally in peaceful mind.
The first
founder of Zen in India is Dajiaye. The successor is Ananda. It is 2,500 years
ago. As we have mentioned, the Dao defined by Buddha Sakyamuni is Zen. In the
time of Buddha Sakyamuni, he did not use the word “Zen”. The word“Zen” is used
in China.
Do you know
who the first founder of Zen in China is? It is the person named Dharma. He
also lives to more than 100 years old, and is dead naturally in peacefully
mind. They themselves are one of the persons who are in the huge wealth and are
the nobility, and have educated well in the worldly, before they learn the Dao.
So, we could
find that, those who are in the huge wealth and are the nobility, and have
educated well in the worldly, would have the higher achievement in the realm of
Buddhahood, once they are willing to go into the path of Buddha. And they are
dying naturally in peaceful mind. That is because they have already liberated
from all suffering, including the suffering of death. Since they have the
ability to help people to liberate from their suffering, that is why they are
not dead in suffering, let alone to die for others suffering. In other word,
they have the supreme wisdom. The teaching of liberating from the suffering in
life and death is the key teaching of Buddha.
Two Basic Conditions to achieve the
Buddhahood.
There must
be full of two conditions so that the Buddhahood could be achieved. That is the worldly bliss and wisdom. The bliss includes the wealth, health and intelligence.
Generally speaking, those who are in the huge wealth and are the nobility might
be full of the worldly bliss. In other word, they might have good education and good
knowledge. However, they are lack of wisdom. That is also why it is difficult
for them to learn the Dao. Because they are full of the worldly bliss, they would learn
the Dao more smoothly, comparing to the poor people, once they are willing to
go into the path of Buddha.
What is the importance of learning the Dao?
Then, we
might have one question. What is the importance of learning the Dao? In a
brief, there are two kinds of importance to us for learning the Dao. One is to
help ourselves liberate from the suffering in this life, and do the good karma
as the cause and condition to lead us to the good life with bliss and wisdom in
the present and the future life. The other is to help us to be reborn, to
reincarnate into the human being of virtue and bliss in the next life and in
the future life. Therefore, those who could feel the four suffering as said,
intent to liberate from the suffering, and who are like to increase the self wisdom,
would be willing to learn the Dao.
Supplementary note: Dao is transliterated
from Chinese, meaning way and method, deeper meaning as a system of learning or
religion. Dao is Tao, which is transliterated from Chinese. The original
meaning of Dao is the way and path, and it is extended to be the truth of life
that we can learn and practice in our lives.
Supplementary note: Dao is transliterated
from Chinese, meaning way and method, deeper meaning as a system of learning or
religion. Dao is Tao, which is transliterated from Chinese. The original
meaning of Dao is the way and path, and it is extended to be the truth of life
that we can learn and practice in our lives.
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