【Mindfulness of Death】- Body, wife, children, fortune… all need to be given up

Ah! regardless of wife, your wealth, your children or good fortune, they are all your beloved. Aye! Before your death, everyone already starts thinking, “When this old man dies, how much of his fortune will I inherit?” Under such circumstances, upon your death, if they cry for a while, that is still considered not bad. If your deceased body has yet to turn cold and they are already fighting amongst themselves in lawsuits. Oh my goodness! I have no idea what are we busy with? This is the truth! This is absolutely the truth! Therefore, there isn’t a single thing externally, and regardless of how much money you have saved in your bank, these monies are adding fuel to the fire that lead you to the three miserable realms.

As for our human body, in comparative thoughts, the past practitioners are really great! Now everything that we have is so convenient and accessible, we still talk about malnutrition! Yesterday, a venerable came to discuss with me about a matter, I then thought of a case study which the event happened about more than 10 years ago. America is a place that emphasizes a lot on nutrition. At that time, there was a board member in America Buddhist Association who had great future prospects, everyone thought highly of him. And what was the cause of his death? His cause of death was not known, no one knew the reasons behind his death. However, before he died, he was sick for a long time. He went to hospital, seen the doctor, mentioned that he was diagnosed with nutrition overdose. Let me tell you, this is a true story, I will never lie to you!

SOURCE 来源 :

38B 01’45” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P187 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P148

日常师父法语📡38B 01’45” 手抄稿第5册P187 LL2

念死无常 : 身妻子财禄...皆当舍

啊！不管是妻、财、子、禄都是恩爱万分。唉！你还没有死，大家已经想了：“喔唷！这个老头子死了以后，这个财产我有多少份？”在这种情况，等你死了哭你两声，还算是好的；你尸骨未寒，他们那个官司已经打将起来了。唉呀，我的天哪！我不晓得我们忙些什么东西？这千真万确的事实，这千真万确的事实！所以外面没有一样东西，你银行存了多少的钱，这些钱都是把你送到三恶道去的火上之油。 然后呢，至于我们那个身体……所以我们常常想，古来的人真了不起！现在我们样样东西都是这么现成，那还说营养不良！昨天有一个法师来跟我谈了一件事情，我就想起一件公案，那件事情离开现在大概已经十多年，十多年。美国是最讲究营养的地方，那时候美国佛教会有一个董事，那个董事那是最有前途的，大家很看好他。他的死就死在什么上面？死的直接，不晓得，一个人不晓得为什么原因死的，可是他死之前长时候生一个病，叫他医院、医生去看，说营养过多症，我告诉你！千真万确的，我绝不骗你哦！