Suffering world

Amituofo is waiting to save us from this suffering world provided we are willing to be saved.

Buddha said, our world is full of suffering.

This is because of the impermanence. （无常）

What can be permanent?

Nothing is permanent including our body.

Today you earn a lot of money, you buy houses, sport car, jewels , you enjoy good foods, are you really happy?

Happiness is a kind of impermanent. Happiness is only a short break of suffering.

When you are hungry you feel the suffering. After you filled you stomach you feel happy, but after another few hours you feel hungry again, suffering has come back.

No matter how wealthy you are, you are still no happy because you scared that you will lost you properties to robbers, thieves, flood, fire, earthquake, enemies and ungrateful children. This is impermanent.

What is happiness then?

Wisdom and Compassion kindness are the key to happiness.

Through Dhamma practice will develop wisdom and compassion kindness.

Contentment (happiness) comes from our spiritual development but not from the worldly wealth. No body can rob away your wisdom and compassion kindness.

Our Great teacher, Sakyamuni Buddha has classified samsara world’s suffering into 8 main categories.

[ 4 birth, old age, sickness, death,

5 leaving of the loves one,

6 See the enemies who we wish not

to see.

7 Wishes are not fulfilled,

8 Emotionally and physically

uncontrolled ]

Talk about birth, we are 9 months in our mother’s womb before we come to see the world.

Buddha said, the womb is like a hell.

It is dark.

When a mother drinks some hot drinks or eats spicy foods, the fetus (baby) is just like in the fire hell. When a mother takes cold drinks, he will feel

As cold as in the icy cool hell. Moreover when a pregnant mother gets angry the fetus will feel like in the punishment hell.

By the time 9 months is due, it is the time for the baby to come to see the world, he must struggle through the narrow passage (like compressing hell) to come out.

By the time he is out, when he first contact with the air, the skin will be painful (like in the sharp knife hell)

That is why every babies first sound

when he came to this world would be

“ku ah, Ku ah……..” (苦啊！苦啊!)

Ku means bitter. Suffering starts!

Secondly and thirdly will be old age and sickness. Everyone of us doesn’t want to get old and fall sick but no one can escape from old age and sickness.

The parts of our body become old, when need glasses to read, we can not hear well, our teeth getting loose. Our organs start giving problems like an old car. This is suffering!

Forth will be the most scary topic.

Death is certain for every one of us.

Nobody can escape from this cycle.

Our life cycle is like a wheel, turn and turn around without stopping, life after life. This is called reincarnation in the samsara world.

(We have been turning round and round between the six realms or six paths,(Heaven, Human, Asura,Animals, Hungry Ghost and Hell) for kalpas long .)

We are so lucky that in this life we have heard Dhamma.

We heard, we belief and we practice Nian Fo. We give ourselves a chance

to end the “merry go round” types of suffering.

Sincerely and truthfully Nian Fo,

We will be blessed with health and happiness now.

At the end of our life span, we will happily said goodbye to the samsara world.

When we migrate to Xi Fang Ji Le Shi Jie. We will have eternal life.

( No birth and no dying)

There is only xi Fang Ji Le Shi Jie

has permanence.

The only things in Xi Fang Ji Le Shi Jie that will change is our lotus flower. (our home).

Our lotus will bloom if we really Nian Fo, otherwise it will die automatically .

In Xi Fang Ji Le Shi Jie we will be born in the lotus.

We Nian Fo to cultivate our lotus for future use. Lotus will be our Home later.

Some are big some are small .Some colours are brighter and some are lighter.

This is depends on our practice.

Lotus will be our “parents”.

We will be free from suffering

of birth, old age ,sickness and death.

We have shared the fours types of suffering just now.

Now we look at the fifth one.

Suffering from leaving of the loves one. This happens every minute around the corners of the world.

There are birth and there are death.

How sorrow it is when someone close to us will have to leave us suddenly.

Without Nian Fo, how to cope with this situation? Sadness, sorrow, and depression will not bring them back.

There was a mother who loves her son so much, unfortunately her son died in a car accident. This mother can not cope with the lost of her son, after her son’s funeral, she commit suicide.

This is a great suffering for the rest of the families’ members. Sad case!

If we have practice and understand Dhamma, we know anything that happen is subject to Cause and Effect.

We have no super natural power that can see the cause (why it is like that)

Anything happens it is due to Cause and Effect. (Law of Universe)

We can see a lot of misfortune happen to other people, we will not know this will happen to the people close to us or not, seeing this, the more we should practice Dhamma and have better mental preparation when thing happen.

No matter how close a person to us, it is a day we have to apart. It is only sooner or later. This is impermanent,

In another word is suffering.

Dhamma Practitioners will Nian Fo Hui Xiang to him/her .

Release him/her and tell him to Nian Fo and migrate to Xi Fang Ji Le Shi Jie to end the reincarnation’s suffering.

Tell him do not worry about the left behind.

Tell him to go(migrate) first, later we will join him in Xi Fang Ji Le Shi Jie.

Tell him to let go all the attachments and Nian Fo, migrate to a better place and change a better physical body.

Upon all the encouragements he

will leave peacefully.

In Buddha times, there was a lady, her son died of sickness. She was very sad and brought the son’s body to see Buddha, asked Buddha to save her son.

Buddha asked her to find some mustard seeds from a family which never have passed away person before.

The lady walked day and night, from town to the village, she found that every family has lost their family members before. At last she came back to see Buddha, Buddha told her,

Birth and death are natural phenomena.

Nian Fo and transfer the merits to the

him will be the greatest help.

Let us share another live happening.

There were an old man and his wife,

A very loving couples. They are Nian Fo Ren ( Dhamma Practitioner).

One day, the old man fall sick seriously, he was aiming to migrate to Xi Fang Ji Le Shi Jie already. So he stopped his medications and Nian Fo.

Not long after that, one fine morning he told the people beside him that he is going off this evening because he saw Amituofo appear in front of him already. He appeared peaceful and delighted.

Upon hearing that, his loving wife

comes beside him and cried loudly,

At once he held back and thought if he has to go now, who will buy the medicine for his wife? So he held back, his pain became serious and passed away four days later. He appeared in suffering face then.

Master Chin Kung said, normally Nian Fo people will show delight and peaceful face at the last moment,

this is also means he will go to a better realms (the upper four realms or heaven or probably migrate to Xi Fang Ji Le Shi Jie.

( If he told us he sees Amituofo or the people around him see Amituofo appeared in front of him and smelled extra ordinary fragrance , these are the signs of a person successfully Wang Sheng to Xi Fang Ji Le Shi Jie )

The sixth suffering is see the enemies that we wish not to see

It is always happened that we tend to see people who don’t like to see.

For me I have a way to over come this suffering. That is to treat others as your family members, always on my forgiving switch in my heart. Chinese saying: [ Si Hai Zhi Nei, Jie Xiongdi ye] means in every corners in the world, we are brothers and sisters.

Master Chin Kung said, the best is to

Open our eyes to look at other’s good and ignore his shortcoming.(weakness)

Like that we will see every one as good person.

We live each day as good day,

We deal with good fortune.

Situations can not change but we can change our way of thinking (wisdom) to deal with even the most difficult situation.

The following seventh suffering is

wishes are not fulfilled.

This is always happen, what we wish may not come the way we want, then there will be suffering.

Number eight is emotionally and physically uncontrolled. We don’t want to get angry but a little small thing will trigger us to become angry.

This is not the problem of circumstances (other people or matters)

But is our roots! There were hatred (angry) seeds inside us, circumstances are only a “bridge”. If there were no hatred seeds , we will not get angry easily.

Come to the conclusion, if we want to live a peaceful and happy life, we have to upgrade ourselves spiritually.

One of the best way is to practice Dhamma. Nian Fo (recite A Mi Tuo Fo) will be the best of the best. What else you are looking for? BE HAPPY! Amituofo.