Even Gautama Buddha the perfect one is not spared from the ills of the flesh. He had diarrhea from contaminated food and had to lie down on one side to pass on to final bliss.
Jesus the son of God and the King of the Jews had to suffer the indignity of being crucified on the cross.
But one thing that stands out was that they were at peace. How many of us could be at peace at our final moment?
We can only do so if we have cultivated the peace of spirit in our routine day-to-day life.
We have to still the mind from bad habits of dis-ease, ill will, attachment and false views.
How often we sulk when someone irritates us or if others are more better than us? How often do we live with the thinking that sickness can affect others and not us, that others can die and death will not knock at our doors?
Cultivate the peace of the saints by stilling the mind. We need to have mindfulness and to be exact moment-to-moment mindfulness.
There are many ways. One way is to call upon the saints and sing incantations to invite them to be in our spirit whilst we go about our moment to moment life.
Then there will be less space in our minds for bad habits and thoughts. Chinese Buddhists do recite or sing repeatedly and habitually "Namo Omitofo".
But you can choose any others to still and purify the mind from being defiled by bad mental habits.
We can put on a good exterior but our mind are full of unpleasant thoughts which we must minimise but not feel guilty for them.
Guilt is itself an unpleasant thought being ill thinking of oneself for one's misdemeanors or transgressions.
Jesus had no unpleasant thoughts on the cross and Buddha was a picture of peace even though he had diarrhea at time of passing on to final bliss.
Jesus the son of God and the King of the Jews had to suffer the indignity of being crucified on the cross.
But one thing that stands out was that they were at peace. How many of us could be at peace at our final moment?
We can only do so if we have cultivated the peace of spirit in our routine day-to-day life.
We have to still the mind from bad habits of dis-ease, ill will, attachment and false views.
How often we sulk when someone irritates us or if others are more better than us? How often do we live with the thinking that sickness can affect others and not us, that others can die and death will not knock at our doors?
Cultivate the peace of the saints by stilling the mind. We need to have mindfulness and to be exact moment-to-moment mindfulness.
There are many ways. One way is to call upon the saints and sing incantations to invite them to be in our spirit whilst we go about our moment to moment life.
Then there will be less space in our minds for bad habits and thoughts. Chinese Buddhists do recite or sing repeatedly and habitually "Namo Omitofo".
But you can choose any others to still and purify the mind from being defiled by bad mental habits.
We can put on a good exterior but our mind are full of unpleasant thoughts which we must minimise but not feel guilty for them.
Guilt is itself an unpleasant thought being ill thinking of oneself for one's misdemeanors or transgressions.
Jesus had no unpleasant thoughts on the cross and Buddha was a picture of peace even though he had diarrhea at time of passing on to final bliss.
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