(Photo by Wong Twee Hee)
Someone asked Master Cheng Yen, “How to live and die is a very important topic in life. How are we to learn about it?”
The Master answered:
In learning Buddhism, we must learn to feel at ease about the matter of life and death. (Life is about “coming to this world and leaving when it is time”), and it all happens naturally.
(Death is but a long and deep sleep.) A long sleep should be a relaxed and easeful experience. It’s like how we long to have a good sleep at night after having a tiring day at work. It’s just that our “final sleep” happens to last longer.
From our perspective, a dead person is someone whom we will never see again. However, to the deceased, it is about entering a weightless state, and he will follow his mind or consciousness to find a new pair of parents with whom he has a karmic affinity and reincarnate into the next life.
Translated by the Tzu Chi Singapore translation team
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