【Mindfulness of Death 念死无常】 there is nothing you can do when death comes 没办法保住不死
【Mindfulness of Death】- there is nothing you can do when death comes
【The Garland of Birth Stories:
Though you hold fast, you cannot stay.
What benefits is there
In being frightened and scared
Of what cannot be changed.
Thus, when you analyze the nature of the world,
Humans are regretful at death because they have sinned
And have not brought forth virtuous actions.
They worry about sufferings to come in future lives
And the fear of dying clouds their minds.
However, I do not know of anything I have done
That would make me regretful,
And I have made myself accustomed to virtuous actions.
Why should anyone who abides in the teaching fear death? 】
The following statement states: you must understand that there is nothing we can do to save our human life, not even under any circumstances, and no matter how hard you try to keep it. Death comes just like that. There is nothing you can do to save it. Nothing helps, even if you go to the doctor. There is this saying that medicine can only cure sicknesses that do not result in death. If your life span is up, then medicine is of little use.
SOURCE 来源 :
38A 23’13” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P183 LL3
English Lamrim Vol 1 P148
日常师父法语📡38A 23’13” 手抄稿第5册P183 LL3
念死无常 : 没办法保住不死
【《本生论》云：“虽励不能住，何事不可医，能作诸怖畏，其中有何益。如是若观世法性，诸人作罪当忧悔，又未善作诸妙业，恐于后法起诸苦。临终畏惧而蒙昧，若何能令我意悔，我未忆作如是事，复善修作白净业，安住正法谁畏死。”】
下面就是这个话，你要晓得我们这个生命，不管你怎么个努力、怎么个弄法，对不起，它没有办法，在任何情况之下，你没办法保住它。要死的这个事情，就是这样，没有一件事情可以保得住，没有一件事情可以帮忙它。所以找医生，我们有一句话“药医不死病”，欸，你如果是寿命该尽的话，那个药是一点用场都没有。