Life and death is the core issue of buddhist thought.Buddhist thought death the bitter end, people should be given great concern for the fundamental problem in life, is how to get relief from the pain of life.Buddhism is different from most religions to the solution of the ultimate concern to the absolute faith to the gods of heaven and earth, it points out the need to rely on human own specialty, rational, willpower and enterprise.

a, in the face of death

In buddhist scriptures in the Buddha do when the prince who ride around capital, and in the city of east, south, west three respectively see doddering, serious illness moaner, mourners death three kinds of people, see a samana monks monastery in the north door, deeply feeling, thought of the future is also hard to avoid the old, illness, and death, moping around all day long, only mind physical events.It is called "four gate", is prompting Buddha monks receiving the tao and a big opportunity.Since then he has to whole life into the life and death on the solution of the problem.Thus, "the life and death" is the Buddha thought and created the core principle of Buddhism.

The Buddha's disciple sariputta said: "the monastery self-aligning, enter nirvana, for the death of the body, like going to the poison, destroyed like a serious illness increasingly.O must be submitted to the, have to necessarily successful, death is changeless, the wisdom eye to watch by itself, from fire, is infinite beauty!"Saw the beauty of the "infinite" from the dead, this is a buddhist special understanding of death.In China, the Confucian pays attention to "life and death have life, wealth in the day", in view of its importance to living, instead of after death.Confucius said: "even unknown, how dead."Confucian advocates man's life, though limited, but can through the cultivation of moral knowledge to spirit alive and immortal.The Taoist view of cultured is "life and death gasification, comply with the nature."They will be life and death are seen as a natural phenomenon.Chuang tzu thought, is a natural birth, aging, death, death is but rest, gather and spread of life and death is nothing but air.Both the rebirth of light dead Confucianism and Taoism in the suicide death claim, teach people to be not afraid of death.Directly gave birth to the Chinese people, especially the Confucian view of "everyone must die, and return steps according to historical records," national integrity, for one thousand years, its progressive significance should not be underestimated.

Not afraid of death are good, however, Confucianism view of the two was too ignore death again.Don't understand the nature of death, not born when thinking about the meaning of death, this is really irresponsible of death.From this point of view of Buddhism.Buddhism believe that the world is full of all kinds of suffering pain, people for the sake of "ignorance" and tortured in misery.If a person is able to see clearly their own bad, can reveal the Buddha nature, then reaches beyond life and death of Buddha.It seems, is buddhist view emphasizes more than before, and not only after his death, but rather in individual life eternal end-result;It isn't about rebirth light death or simple suicide death, instead?Phlegm jia h qiao wan weft?To pay?Feed?

Second, all the suffer

People teach Buddhism commandment to face death, is to help people get relief from the pain of life.The Buddha in the pledge when will he give away all, the diligence for the purpose of the expression is clear: "I was afraid of physical, for in addition to the physical broken distressed and becoming a monk, and to reach the goal will also house!"After the Buddha in a way of the noble truths is the "bitter noble truths", this is his life to reflect upon and confirm the bitter criticism of life value.

In life, the general said eight bitter: birth bitter, old, sick, die hard, love, separation, hatred will hate bitter, but shall not be bitter, take five aggregates.

The shape of people died in the first by Yin, incarnate into the tire to 21 days.In the mother's womb, and my mother to eat hot, baby will feel hot, like be poured hot water;Mother to eat cold, baby will feel cold, like fall into ice.Mother to eat, food oppression tire body, pain not to speak of,Mother hungry, the fetus is more hungry.Fetal full until October, will be born, head to the door, as if the two stone mountain.The wind up dangerous father was born, his mother's body.It was born.

Everyone from their parents, parenting, grow up strong, slowly life consenescence, tine shakes, wrinkled, deafness, memory loss, all ills, craggy, is weak, start line lie to people to support.This is old.

The human body by land, water, fire and wind is a mix of the four elements.One of these elements and other elements don't live in harmony, can have one hundred and one kinds of disease, the four elements in discord, produce four hundred and four kinds of disease.To big to be not moved, and heavy;Water is not adjustable, and swelling;Fire is not adjusted, was steaming hot;Windy to be not moved, the whole body stiffness, joint aches and pains.Four no more pain, relatives six people care, day and night for the concern, even if a gourmet food, entrance is bitter.This is the pain.

When people died, more than four hundred kinds of disease attacks at the same time, the soul, the wind knife disassembly, there is no place of pain.Family relatives in tears on both sides.But when expired, cut and cooling,The bodyStraight, loss of consciousness.After a few days, bad rotten flesh and blood, swelling of rotten smelly, to and terror.It is dead.

Love bitter separation.Brothers and relatives of his wife and children's well,A blind dateLove each other, once the destruction, their dispersed, no see each other again some time period, it is big.Prayer may not bitter.

Money in the house is still not content, one thousand party hundreds to hack, exert.Or for officials, discontent, graft for riches and honour, sorrow be prosecuted.Hatred hate meeting.The mold lust, convening in their respective competitive form an adversary and enemy to hate each other, and even spell a life-and-death.Take five aggregates bitter also said sorrow sadness so bitter.

In life, hard to avoid all sorts of sorrow, home indoor and outdoor more sickly sorrow, lest sorrow property loss, failure, family travel not sad...All the sorrow makes a rare joy comfortable.Auspicious date should be close together, laughing happy face, but often sad yan.

Why to say everything in life hard or the music is?Buddhist scriptures put out three reasons:

First, bitter and interdependence.Have together the joy of the suffering of the separation, will have the joy of the suffering of the cold and have a warm.The nirvana sutra as a big volume 13 said: "life and death, the actual music, bodhisattva maha going with one sex does not abandon, is so said everything."Second, born of good retribution, in fact is bitter.Won't refer to produce, always rely on enough to produce its various conditions.Now that rely on other conditions, the happiness belong to him, is not a completely independent, in accordance with he and uncomfortable, this is actually a bitter.Third, the fickle, nature is bitter.Rely on certain conditions, always disappear, along with the conditions of the change will not always stay the same.So essentially, all life is suffering.Talk everything life, Buddhism is pessimistic negate the value of life?Of course not!When we understand the bitter noble truths must understand the following:

Second, say everything is bitter, is only one aspect of the buddhist life values, not all of them.If there is a general sense of life values, between Buddhism in fact think life is going and a half.There are many special advantages and more human.Second, as long as objective and calm attitude to reflect life, Buddhism has revealed the life is the true portraiture of life.Aging, illness, and death are some of the defects, as people are born more than age, exist above classes.As for the others, still around us.And Buddhism mainly emphasizes is itself exists defects, aging, illness, and bitter.

Third, Buddhism is the fundamental principle of "should be drug and disease".Buddhism directly reveal the human suffering and defects, is to remind all beings should know their own situation, according to the facts to make people pay attention to the solution of the fundamental problems about life sober up.Rumours that bitter truths of Buddhism's curse not suggest a negative life, but to raise awareness about their status, defect recognition according to the facts of life.Encourage people to fight, to conquer until the eradication of all kinds of suffering.Fourth, said everything bitter only Buddhism from the secular point of view, if the buddhist "capricious" point of view, this empty bitter, bitter end not bitter.This is the correct observation bitter nature, so as to completely destroy the gist of the bitter.