【Mindfulness of Death 念死无常】At the time of death nothing helps except religious practice 死时除法而外，余皆无益
【Mindfulness of Death】- At the time of death nothing helps except religious practice
【c” The contemplation that at the time of death nothing helps except religious practice】
Regarding the third root, how should we contemplate? It says that wait till the moment of your death, other than religious practice, there is nothing that will be of help. Let us now take a look:
【1 Friends will not help
When you see that you must go to your next life, no matter how many loving and very worried relatives and friends surround you at that time, you cannot take even one with you.
2 Resources will not help
No matter how many piles of beautiful jewels you have, you cannot take even the slightest particle with you.
3 Your body will not help
As you even have to discard the flesh and bones with which you were born, what need is there to mention anything else?】
Further, we can see that when we die, what is going to happen then? No matter how loving is your family members, relatives and friends, at that time, no one will follow you. They are also not willing to or even if they are willing, they are not able to. Even if they have followed you, it is still futile and will not be of help to you, not the slightest bit! This is regarding people. How about the phenomenon? No matter how many beautiful jewels you have accumulated, no matter how many accolades, no matter what resources, will it help? Hey, similarly, you cannot take even the slightest particle with you. Not to mention about these external things, even your own precious body, the one you have fed well, and just for a slight illness, you feel that this part of the body does not feel right, that part is not right. At the end of your life, your two legs stretched out (upon death) and about to go, may I ask what is there left?
SOURCE 来源 :
40A 24’03” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P252 LL3
English Lamrim Vol 1 P158
日常师父法语📡40A 24’03”手抄稿第5册P252 LL3
念死无常 : 死时除法而外，余皆无益
【第三思惟死时除法而外，余皆无益之三者。】
第三个，怎么思惟法呢？说等到你死的时候啊，除了修学佛法以外，其他所有的都没有用处。现在我们看：
【如是若见须往他世，尔时亲友极大怜爱而相围绕，然无一人是可随去。尽其所有悦意宝聚，然无尘许可得持往。俱生骨肉尚须弃舍，况诸余法。】
我们再进一步更看，说我们死的时候，两脚一伸，好啰！那个时候什么样呢？不管你的亲戚朋友、至亲骨肉，再怎么样地亲爱，到那个时候，没有一个人会跟着你去，他也不愿意；就算他愿意也跟不去。就算他要跟去了，对你还是没有用，一点用场都没有！这是对人。法呢？不管你聚多少财宝啊，不管是多少的名誉，不管什么东西，有没有用呀？嘿，同样地，一点都带不去。不要说外面的这些东西带不去，就是连带你把那宝爱的这个身体，生前的时候，养得它胖胖的，唉哟，就一点点小毛病啊，就觉得这个也不对、那个也不对。结果到那时候，两脚一伸，请问还剩什么？