Discovering Buddhism - Death and Rebirth (12 April 2012)

0:00 The fear and the apprehension and sort of the denial that we have. And we become more comfortable with this idea. Or even just the idea that, you know, you can take one point that death is certain and you can kind of reflect on that. Or you can say, the time of death is uncertain. Just recognizing that, even though I'm thinking, oh, there's no way I'm going to die today. Report an error in the passage at 0:00 Highlight the passage at 0:00

0:26 There's no good reason for me to say that or think that, you know. And kind of, you know, you can take that as just a basis for your meditation. That's fine. Report an error in the passage at 0:26 Highlight the passage at 0:26

0:49 Right? Right? We started the afflicted emotions class this week and unfortunately it was kind of a small group and we kind of decided it would be better to postpone that class. So if you've seen the flyer and you're wondering why it's not happening, it will probably happen after we make the move. because with all the things going on right now Report an error in the passage at 0:49 Highlight the passage at 0:49

1:20 think. So last week we talked a little bit about the six preliminary practices, and they involved this idea of preparing a space for your practice or your meditation, whatever. Some people who are practicing Buddhist have not only a meditation practice, they might have recitations and other... You know, combinations of meditations and prayers that they do. And so this is kind of a general thing, whether you're just trying to create a space for meditation or have a place to do a regular Buddhist practice. Report an error in the passage at 1:20 Highlight the passage at 1:20

2:08 The idea of cleaning and arranging and having it be a nice place is that preparation. All of this is symbolic as well. It's physical. It doesn't feel better. And we have a nicely prepared place, but it's also psychological because we can envision, you know, clearing away the clutter from our minds. And then arranging offerings is just creating merit, giving a positive start to our practice. Report an error in the passage at 2:08 Highlight the passage at 2:08

2:40 We talked about that preposter, which we'll get to more in the third line here. So we've got the six preliminary practices, and they involve... Report an error in the passage at 2:40 Highlight the passage at 2:40

2:55 Also the visualizing the merit field and then offering a seven-month prayer and then doing whatever practice followed after that. And we covered that in more detail last week. But I wanted to just review it here. And then you mentioned that, you know, in preparing for medication, there's two sides of it. Report an error in the passage at 2:55 Highlight the passage at 2:55

3:15 The preparation of the place and the preparation of the person. So the place is the same thing as having that. Cleaning and arranging as part of the preliminary practices. And the preparation of the person involves our posture. We talked about that seven-fold posture of Ayurachana. And you can kind of condes that into the back. So we want the back to be straight but not stiff. Report an error in the passage at 3:15 Highlight the passage at 3:15

3:43 The legs to be crossed, or if you're sitting in a chair, just repeat around the floor. Report an error in the passage at 3:43 Highlight the passage at 3:43

3:51 I think we mentioned last week that the actual, the official or the sevenfold posture by the time includes this sort of full lotus position where the rings are crossed on top of each other. But that's not necessary. Just having, basically finding a comfortable position, a comfortable posture is what's most important here. Report an error in the passage at 3:51 Highlight the passage at 3:51

4:21 You can, we said you could have your right palm on the left for your palms touching and have your back move your about maybe four fingers below your navel or you could just rest your palms on your knees, that's fine too. You can have your chin kind of tucked in which sort of forces your head slightly forward so you can think of backs, legs, hands, chin, eyes looking down at the floor in front of you or toes. Report an error in the passage at 4:21 Highlight the passage at 4:21

4:50 It's recommended that your tongue is touching your palate and your lips are slightly separated, so you're breathing a little bit, mostly for your nose. Report an error in the passage at 4:50 Highlight the passage at 4:50

5:01 Breathing is at a very comfortable, comfortable pace. Report an error in the passage at 5:01 Highlight the passage at 5:01

5:13 So, did anybody get to read the section in the readings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on page 70-something? Report an error in the passage at 5:13 Highlight the passage at 5:13

5:28 Anyway, what I thought we'd do is a meditation there on how life is finishing quickly. And I thought maybe we'd start and do that for a few minutes tonight. Because it's a pretty, it's a very experiential kind of meditation. And so the idea, again, when we're meditating on death and when we're studying the subject is, you know, not to depress our syllables, not to be healed. Report an error in the passage at 5:28 Highlight the passage at 5:28

6:00 hopeless or afraid. It's to overcome all those things and to realize that time we have is very precious that we have lots of opportunity and it's to encourage us to realize that. The problem we have, you know, you think, oh, that would be an easy thing. I understand that. But we're still bombarded with the busyness of life. Report an error in the passage at 6:00 Highlight the passage at 6:00

6:30 With other things, with mundane concerns, with basically a whole society that doesn't share this view. Our society has a view of not even recognizing old age, let alone dying. We live in a mindset of we're going to live forever and we're going to be young forever. And so much effort is put into products to make that. Report an error in the passage at 6:30 Highlight the passage at 6:30

6:58 To convince us that it's possible or to make us appear that way. So, you know, what we're facing, what we're trying to do here is pretty tough, given, you know, the situation we're living in. So, why don't you just, let's go back into a little meditation posture. And just go with this and see how it feels. Report an error in the passage at 6:58 Highlight the passage at 6:58

7:22 And see if you can just, Lama Tsongkhapa says that if you start to feel your heart break. Go up, you know, your breathing to increase as a sign that you're having a good, a real hard experience of this. It's like getting past the intellectual level and sort of coming to a deeper level. So Report an error in the passage at 7:22 Highlight the passage at 7:22

7:48 now just think how quickly a life of 100,000 years duration finishes by seconds, minutes, days, Report an error in the passage at 7:48 Highlight the passage at 7:48

8:07 every moment, even a life of 100,000 years duration gets shorter. Report an error in the passage at 8:07 Highlight the passage at 8:07

8:19 calculate many seconds there are a hundred thousand units. Report an error in the passage at 8:19 Highlight the passage at 8:19

8:32 seconds start ticking, they start running out the moment of conception in mother's As soon as life begins, as each split second passes, a whole collection of split seconds starts to finish. Report an error in the passage at 8:32 Highlight the passage at 8:32

9:00 So that hundred thousand years of life diminishes. second by split second. turn it, gets shorter. Report an error in the passage at 9:00 Highlight the passage at 9:00

9:21 subtract each second from the whole, we deliver this rest and rest. Report an error in the passage at 9:21 Highlight the passage at 9:21

9:49 I was conceived in my mother's womb, since my mind entered the Frivolized Age, my carnally determined life span. Report an error in the passage at 9:49 Highlight the passage at 9:49

10:01 70, or over many years later. My life span has a finite number of hours. And within that time, there's a finite number of split seconds. Report an error in the passage at 10:01 Highlight the passage at 10:01

10:24 Each split second passes. Each second gets shorter and finished. Each Report an error in the passage at 10:24 Highlight the passage at 10:24

10:33 second passes. Each minute gets shorter and finished. Report an error in the passage at 10:33 Highlight the passage at 10:33

10:42 Passes. Each hour gets shorter and finished. Hour Report an error in the passage at 10:42 Highlight the passage at 10:42

10:50 passes. Each day gets shorter and finished. Each Report an error in the passage at 10:50 Highlight the passage at 10:50

10:59 day passes. Each week gets shorter and finished. Week Report an error in the passage at 10:59 Highlight the passage at 10:59

11:06 passes. Each month gets shorter. As Report an error in the passage at 11:06 Highlight the passage at 11:06

11:15 each month passes, each year gets shorter and finishes. And as each year passes, I am one year less than ever. Just Report an error in the passage at 11:15 Highlight the passage at 11:15

11:40 think, my life is like a pile of rice, from which the grains are removed one by one, and as each grain is removed, the pile gets smaller and smaller. In Report an error in the passage at 11:40 Highlight the passage at 11:40

11:57 the same way as each month passes, it's finishing. I'm getting older and closer to them. Report an error in the passage at 11:57 Highlight the passage at 11:57

12:31 As each second that makes up my 70 years passes, I'm getting closer to them. Day and night, whatever I'm doing, eating, drinking, sleeping, talking, meditating, moment by moment, all the time, I'm getting closer to them. Report an error in the passage at 12:31 Highlight the passage at 12:31

12:55 From the time of my conception up until now, a certain number of 12 seconds allocated to my life has passed. A certain number of days, months and years have passed. Since that time, I've been running full of death without even a split second to call. It Report an error in the passage at 12:55 Highlight the passage at 12:55

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13:48 took 70 years. Within that time, I had a certain number of breaths. There's a fixed number. Report an error in the passage at 13:48 Highlight the passage at 13:48

13:58 So each time I breathe, my life is finishing. If the total number of breaths that makes up my life increases, I'm getting closer to death. Report an error in the passage at 13:58 Highlight the passage at 13:58

14:11 In one day, I have a certain number of breaths. thousand if each one finishes, getting closer to death, just like an animal being read this morning. Report an error in the passage at 14:11 Highlight the passage at 14:11

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15:09 by a rope tied around its know that with each step getting closer to them i'm just like that pitiful ignorant animal each breath, the passing of each third second. Report an error in the passage at 15:09 Highlight the passage at 15:09

15:27 I saw Report an error in the passage at 15:27 Highlight the passage at 15:27

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49:07 the younger woman, Lama, and said he was a realized being, you know, ready to hear the Dharma and he told her these Report an error in the passage at 49:07 Highlight the passage at 49:07

49:21 so he said, listen, lady of wealth, have faith, have you enough supplies for road of future lives after this one? do not have enough, generosity. That will be your supply. Have you enough companions to face the terrors in Report an error in the passage at 49:21 Highlight the passage at 49:21

49:40 do not have enough, divine dharma. The Report an error in the passage at 49:40 Highlight the passage at 49:40

49:48 text itself goes on. It's a very nice text. Report an error in the passage at 49:48 Highlight the passage at 49:48

49:54 Again, it just kind of reminds us, you know, we can never have enough. What's ahead? Because it all has to stay behind. We spend all this time collecting the wrong thing. Report an error in the passage at 49:54 Highlight the passage at 49:54

50:13 The resolution here or what to really take away is that practicing dying is the key. Developing qualities that help us. To Report an error in the passage at 50:13 Highlight the passage at 50:13

50:29 live in the moment and learning mindfulness. To live mindfully. To be present so we're not, as we said in earlier classes, that whether we're living mindfully or whether we're just living. The time is going. Get busy living or get busy dying. It's just adopting a spiritual practice. Report an error in the passage at 50:29 Highlight the passage at 50:29

50:56 Spirituality being a practice that leads us. Report an error in the passage at 50:56 Highlight the passage at 50:56

51:07 By the way, I forgot to send the slides up earlier, but I did send them just before. Report an error in the passage at 51:07 Highlight the passage at 51:07

51:21 Some of Report an error in the passage at 51:21 Highlight the passage at 51:21

51:35 it is more relevant because it talks about the dying process, but some of it deals with the kinds of meditations. Report an error in the passage at 51:35 Highlight the passage at 51:35

51:54 Are there any questions? Report an error in the passage at 51:54 Highlight the passage at 51:54

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1:06:41 under the Dalai Lama, there's a whole, get This Report an error in the passage at 1:06:41 Highlight the passage at 1:06:41

1:06:51 poem is read and used by Tibetans and their practice on Report an error in the passage at 1:06:51 Highlight the passage at 1:06:51

1:07:05 the perilous strays Report an error in the passage at 1:07:05 Highlight the passage at 1:07:05

1:07:16 throughout space and without exception go for refuge until the ultimate of enlightenment to the past, present to buddhas, the doctrine and the spiritual community. May we be released from the frights of this life. This is the first and it's basically saying that, you know, refuge and caring for others, wishing for protection from the Franking aspects of this life, the intermediate state, which is said to be the next life after this, and then the next. Report an error in the passage at 1:07:16 Highlight the passage at 1:07:16

1:07:50 So in the next couple weeks we'll talk about the death process and what's sometimes called the bardom, or the immediate state, is process of going from this life, it's an in-between time before the next rebirth. Report an error in the passage at 1:07:50 Highlight the passage at 1:07:50

1:08:07 It's sort of like a small rebirth. Sometimes you'll hear in the prayer list. will say, for those who are still in Bardo, because it said that that intermediate state last up to Report an error in the passage at 1:08:07 Highlight the passage at 1:08:07

1:08:39 quickly or it can be you know it depends on our karma for the rebirth but we'll talk more so starting this with an idea Report an error in the passage at 1:08:39 Highlight the passage at 1:08:39

1:08:51 refuge in the three jewels, the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha. Report an error in the passage at 1:08:51 Highlight the passage at 1:08:51

1:08:57 May Report an error in the passage at 1:08:57 Highlight the passage at 1:08:57

1:09:02 we extract the meaningful essence of this life support. without being distracted by the senseless affairs of this life. Since this good foundation, hard to gain, disintegrate, presents an opportunity choice So just Report an error in the passage at 1:09:02 Highlight the passage at 1:09:02

1:09:22 recognizing this optimum human rebirth that we have, this potential, and wishing to make the most of it. You know, recognizing that this opportunity doesn't come along very often and that it's easily lost, Report an error in the passage at 1:09:22 Highlight the passage at 1:09:22

1:09:40 bodies are fragile, other many causes of death. Just trying to extract. Report an error in the passage at 1:09:40 Highlight the passage at 1:09:40

1:09:53 And then may we realize that there is no time to waste. Death being definite, but the time of death indefinite. What has gathered will separate. What has been accumulated will be consumed without residue. At the end of arising comes descent. The finality of birth is death. So just a reminder of basically the points of the death meditation and remembering impermanence and death. Report an error in the passage at 1:09:53 Highlight the passage at 1:09:53

1:10:22 And wishing to overcome our attachment to cyclic existence. Cyclic existence is saṃsāra or this round of death and rebirth and death currently. Report an error in the passage at 1:10:22 Highlight the passage at 1:10:22

1:10:42 And then the third stanza is, may we be relieved from overwhelming suffering due to the various causes of death, when in the city of erroneous conceptions, subject and object, the illusory body composed of the four impure elements and consciousness are about to... Report an error in the passage at 1:10:42 Highlight the passage at 1:10:42

1:11:01 So wishing for the non-arising of overwhelming suffering while dying. This is something we'll talk about more next week because it did involve more of the stages of death, the processes we go through. And as I was mentioning before, the benefit of having a peaceful mind at the time of death, a calm mind, this is what our practice enables us to experience. Report an error in the passage at 1:11:01 Highlight the passage at 1:11:01

1:11:29 Because karma arises, Visions come to the inexperienced mind, frightening things. And so by having this practice, this meditation, even meditating, part of the meditation can be meditating on the actual experience of the stages of death and dissolution. So we'll talk about that more. But part of this stand is really expressing the wish to have a peaceful. Report an error in the passage at 1:11:29 Highlight the passage at 1:11:29

1:12:02 happy death, or happy experience of dying. And then may we be relieved from the mistaken appearance of non-virtue when deceived at the time of need by this body sustained severely the frightful enemies, lords of death, manifest and we kill ourselves with the weapons of the three poisons of lust, hatred and bewilderment. Report an error in the passage at 1:12:02 Highlight the passage at 1:12:02

1:12:27 So, you know, here we're talking when we talk about the three poisons. Sometimes it's attachment, aversion and ignorance. And keep in mind when we say ignorance, sometimes from a western viewpoint it sounds more insulting or the idea of ignorance is misconception, misunderstanding. It's not that we're all just mindless, it's this misunderstanding, this projection of our minds. Report an error in the passage at 1:12:27 Highlight the passage at 1:12:27

1:13:02 So it's basically around this, you can think, you can sort of equate ignorance and misconception. So, you know, if we haven't practiced a spiritual life, if we haven't done anything to control our minds, to subdue sort of the self-cherishing mind, then these weapons of the three poisons, you know, of aversion, attachment, and... Report an error in the passage at 1:13:02 Highlight the passage at 1:13:02

1:13:31 And misconception are going to arise and create all sorts of frightening appearances. And see, we'll get into this more, but the kinds of things that we experience are very much dependent upon the stakes of our minds. Report an error in the passage at 1:13:31 Highlight the passage at 1:13:31

1:13:50 And we don't realize it, but effectively that's the way we live as well. It's all how we see the things around us, how we see the world around us is very much... Report an error in the passage at 1:13:50 Highlight the passage at 1:13:50

1:14:06 And I Report an error in the passage at 1:14:06 Highlight the passage at 1:14:06

1:14:11 think this is the fifth stanza. Wishing may we remember the instructions for practice when doctors forsake us and rights are of no avail. Friends have given up hope for our life and we are left with nothing else to do. So here just wishing for mindfulness of remembering the instructions while dying. There are instructions, there's a practice that can be done. Report an error in the passage at 1:14:11 Highlight the passage at 1:14:11

1:14:38 To help us through this death process. And if we think about, there's a meditation we can do, where in your mind you imagine being in a plane crash or something. Or, you know, sometimes you can have, or if you're in a, if you're on a plane, or if you're sitting in the house and things start shaking, you have a sudden, you know, tightening. Report an error in the passage at 1:14:38 Highlight the passage at 1:14:38

1:15:06 And you're thinking, oh my gosh. I could die that our thought arises. And when it becomes a more, like if you're on a plane and things that are really feeling uncertain, all sorts of panic can arise. Instead of having a calm mind, we can be led into this kind of projection. And so remembering instructions, remembering those instructions comes out of having the practice of meditation. Report an error in the passage at 1:15:06 Highlight the passage at 1:15:06

1:15:35 That's how we remember it. It becomes very second nature to us. It becomes something that we've done a lot. Because if we just, you know, it's something we do occasionally, then at that time when we're panicking, you know, it's not going to be on our minds. It's going to be something else. So then may we have the confidence of joy and delight when food and wealth accumulated with miserliness are left behind and we separate forever from cherished and long before friends. Report an error in the passage at 1:15:35 Highlight the passage at 1:15:35

1:16:07 Going alone to a perilous situation. So wishing to die within joyful confidence. And if we've, again, had this practice where we're applying the Report an error in the passage at 1:16:07 Highlight the passage at 1:16:07

1:16:21 points of the lamrim, if we're taking advantage of this precious human rebirth, we're practicing the trainings of wisdom, concentration and morality, then... At the time of death, we will have a basis. We will have this confidence of recognizing that the things we're leaving behind are actually the elimination of a burden. Report an error in the passage at 1:16:21 Highlight the passage at 1:16:21

1:16:51 It's a weight lifted. And, you know, separating from friends, we know, if we've been practicing, that all of our friendships are impermanent, just as we are impermanent. So we're prepared for that. And that we're ready to take this journey into the next life alone. Report an error in the passage at 1:16:51 Highlight the passage at 1:16:51

1:17:17 And the next stanza, may we generate a powerful mind of virtue when the elements, earth, water, fire and wind, dissolve in stages, and physical strength is lost, mouth and nose dry and pucker. Warmth withdraws, breaths are gasped, and rattling sounds emerge. So this deals very much with... The dissolution of the elements wishing to generate a powerful mind of virtue when the external signs of death arise. So this will cover more next week and the week that follow. Report an error in the passage at 1:17:17 Highlight the passage at 1:17:17

1:17:53 But recognizing that, you know, as the body is shutting down and we're starting this journey, the death process, that our practice... And what we've done to subdue our minds is what will essentially carry us through this in a controlled way and kind of in a directed way as opposed to just reacting to what appears before us. Report an error in the passage at 1:17:53 Highlight the passage at 1:17:53

1:18:35 So that's about it for now. There's another meditation and the readings. That is a meditation on certain circumstances of death. And that's on page 80 of the readings. It's a meditation composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. And that's a good one. If you have a chance even just to read it over, it's useful. If you can read it and then maybe do a little meditation about it, on it, that's fine. We've kind of run out of time tonight. Report an error in the passage at 1:18:35 Highlight the passage at 1:18:35

1:19:17 So maybe we'll... Have some time to do that one next week. Does anybody have any questions or anything? Report an error in the passage at 1:19:17 Highlight the passage at 1:19:17

1:19:26 That's a good question. Let's have a show of habit. In terms of the retreat day, I think Sitch and Link's schedule is pretty open. Report an error in the passage at 1:19:26 Highlight the passage at 1:19:26

1:19:37 And I was going to say, let's see if I can bring it to the calendar. Okay. So we were thinking, Report an error in the passage at 1:19:37 Highlight the passage at 1:19:37

1:19:51 let's see, our class ends on May 3rd. So we could have it May 5th. Oh, no, we can't because I want to tell you that there's a Tara retreat, a yellow Tara retreat on the 4th, 5th and 6th. And yellow Tara is an aspect of Tara for increase or increase and extension and enrichment of our attainment, so of our understanding. Report an error in the passage at 1:19:51 Highlight the passage at 1:19:51

1:20:26 So Geshe-la will be reading that and it starts on a Friday night and finishes on Sunday, Sunday morning. And there will be more information on the website. Soon, okay, there will be more information. So that Saturday is out. So we should probably go back, okay, the 21st is out because that would be... Report an error in the passage at 1:20:26 Highlight the passage at 1:20:26

1:20:50 Yeah, well, but our class ends May 3rd. So, I mean, we could do it May 12th. How's May 12th some people? Okay. Well, the other thing is how many people are planning to come, you know, would be able to come on a Saturday or would want to come? Oh, wow. Okay. Report an error in the passage at 1:20:50 Highlight the passage at 1:20:50

1:21:16 The other thing, well, I was going to say, what about the 28th of April? Can everybody make the 28th of April? Do we have anything happening? You know, let's take that tentatively, we'll say the 28th of April. Oh, you know what, there's a TCM, we're having a T that night, and it's the moving T. But that probably, let me, we'll talk about it, I'll just talk to Teresa and see if there's anything else to plan. So we'll say tentatively the 28th, or it could be the 12th. Report an error in the passage at 1:21:16 Highlight the passage at 1:21:16

1:21:56 Usually we'd start at about 10.30 and finish maybe about 2 in the afternoon. Have a little lunch break. Kind Report an error in the passage at 1:21:56 Highlight the passage at 1:21:56

1:22:11 of like having a little mini retreat. We'll review. It'll be made with meditation. There could be time for discussion if you want to have discussion. But it's kind of treated as like a review on practice day. A lot of meditation. Maybe doing different meditations from the class. Meditating on certain aspects that we've reviewed. There won't be any new material in it. It's more geared toward... Report an error in the passage at 1:22:11 Highlight the passage at 1:22:11

1:22:39 And we'll try, like maybe in the morning, we'll keep it silent. And then after lunch, if we're, you know, we would have a discussion and be able to talk in the afternoon. Report an error in the passage at 1:22:39 Highlight the passage at 1:22:39

1:22:58 Mark, do you know what's the plan for the Discovery of Buddhism series? Yeah, I don't think that there's really... Report an error in the passage at 1:22:58 Highlight the passage at 1:22:58

1:23:11 It's not certain yet. Yeah, but between the rooms and also one of our core features is... Report an error in the passage at 1:23:11 Highlight the passage at 1:23:11

1:23:24 We will take up the Afflictive or Disturbing Emotions class, and that will probably be maybe in July. I think while we're moving, it's going to be kind of difficult. So I'm hesitant to do anything in June yet. there's a lot of those. Yes. Sure. Oh, yeah, sure. We're at Section Lane. We've given notice on this building. Yeah. So our lease ends at the end of June. Report an error in the passage at 1:23:24 Highlight the passage at 1:23:24

1:24:00 So we're looking for a new place and we're looking for a neighborhood that's going to be close to Bards and hopefully have some parking and very few stairs. And it doesn't necessarily, it probably won't be a residential. It might be more of a commercial building, but larger meeting room than we have here. Report an error in the passage at 1:24:00 Highlight the passage at 1:24:00

1:24:21 If you see things, just, you know, see something interesting in a neighborhood that you think would work, it's tcl.move at gmail.com. I think there's an email. Report an error in the passage at 1:24:21 Highlight the passage at 1:24:21

1:24:37 Yeah, we're trying. I mean, I think we're considering perhaps getting, you know, on the edge of Daly City if it's close to the BART station and rent is more affordable there. That would be a possibility, but no further than that. Just trying to keep close. Okay, well, let's do a little dedication. Report an error in the passage at 1:24:37 Highlight the passage at 1:24:37

1:24:58 think that's actually a thunderstorm. Yes. It's raining. Okay, page 246 in the gold books. May Report an error in the passage at 1:24:58 Highlight the passage at 1:24:58

1:25:16 all beings everywhere, plagued by sufferings of body and mind, obtain an ocean of happiness and joy by virtue of my merits. May no living creature suffer from the evil or ever fall ill. May no one be afraid or belittled with a mind weighted down by depression. May the blind see forms and the deaf hear sounds. Report an error in the passage at 1:25:16 Highlight the passage at 1:25:16

1:25:38 May those whose bodies are warm with joy be restored on finding repose. May the naked find clothing, the hungry find food. May the thirsty find water and delicious drinks. May the poor find wealth, those weak with sorrow find joy. May the forewarn find hope, constant happiness and prosperity. May there be timely rains and bountiful harvest. May all medicines be effective and wholesome prayers bear fruit. Report an error in the passage at 1:25:38 Highlight the passage at 1:25:38

1:26:07 May all who are sick and ill quickly be freed from their ailments. Whatever diseases there are in the world, may they never occur again. May the frightened cease to be afraid, and those bound be freed. May the powerless find power, and may people think of them fitting each other. For as long as space remains, for as long as sentient beings remain, until then they are to remain, whose fellow is reasonable. Report an error in the passage at 1:26:07 Highlight the passage at 1:26:07