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Gama Rinpoche: Why do Buddhists not vow to be reborn in heaven

Tibetan Master 2014-12-13

People have heard of "heaven", and even believe that heaven is what Buddhists call Pure Land, which is a different concept.Many people who believe in other religions regard going to heaven in the next life as their ultimate goal. Heaven is the way of heaven among the six realms mentioned in Buddhism, and is still in the cycle of reincarnation;Mahayana Buddhists want to escape from the samsara, so they do not vow to be reborn in heaven, but go to the Pure Land for self-interest and others. This practice gas station continues to study in front of the Buddha and seek to realize the fruit of the Supreme Pure Enlightenment Buddha.

Going to heaven is very similar to vacationing, just like feeling tired in the world and likes to go on vacation.When you decide to go on vacation, you must first have money;When you want to go to heaven, you must first be blessed.When you have worked hard to accumulate enough blessings in your life and have been driven by the leakage of good deeds and vows, you can go to heaven in the next life.Don’t forget to enjoy it when you go on vacation. You are actually spending money all the time. If you don’t have the chance to miss the money, you will have a day of running out of money.The same is true for enjoying it in heaven. When you arrive in heaven, you will constantly consume blessings, and there will be times when you use up your blessings.

The heavens include the desire realm, the form realm, and the formless realm.There are twenty-eight heavens from bottom to top.The sentient beings in the heavenly realm are the highest-level sentient beings in the six realms. The heavenly beings have great blessings, majestic body, beautiful appearance, enjoy enjoyment and freedom, long lifespan, no obvious suffering, but the suffering of action and change are still there.Because the heavens and man are immersed in wonderful joy, they will not develop the desire for renunciation and often forget about time and impermanence. Although their lifespan is longer than that of the human world, the feelings of the heavens and man may be only a short time.Just like mosquitoes have a normal lifespan of only about fifty days, but for them, it can be accomplished from birth, growth, mating, childbirth, aging and death.Humans also have this feeling: happy times always pass very quickly.

There are six levels of the Desire Realm Heaven from low to high: the Four King Heaven, the Thirty-Three Heavens, the Night Moon Heaven, the Tushita Heaven, the Happy Heaven, and the Other Transformation Free Heaven.There are men and women with lust, emotions, colors, food and other desires. They are happy to praise all Buddhas and perform Buddhist affairs, fly in the void, disperse wonderful sky flowers, play wonderful sky music, and inflate wonderful sky fragrance... The body is bright and pure, so people call it "Flying Sky".Their sexual intercourse is different from humans. For example, if the Tushita Heaven holds hands and can sexual intercourse, and if the happiness turns into heaven and smiles, can sexual intercourse.The most painful thing is the suffering of the death.They can use the ability of the heavenly eye to see that they are about to be reborn in the inferior path, and they feel the pain and torture, and they can clearly feel the loss of light in their bodies;The flower vines wither;Smelling and dirty clothes;Sit and lie down and feel uncomfortable;The smell dissipates, and other gods are far away from each other, so they can only send blessings.They are used to spending blessings at will, and many of them fall into the evil path when they are about to die, and cannot be reborn in the good realm for a long time.

In the form realm, there are four meditations and eighteen levels of heaven, among which the first meditation heaven (Brahmatiantian, Brahmastian, and Brahmatian), the second meditation heaven (Shaoguangtian, Infinite Light Heaven, Light and Sound Heaven), and the third meditation heaven (Shaoguangtian, Infinite Pure Heaven, and Pervasive Pure Heaven) each have three levels;The four meditation heavens (the heaven without clouds, the heaven of blessings, the heaven of broad fruits, the heaven of no thoughts, the heaven of no troubles, the heaven of no heat, the heaven of good seeing, the heaven of good appearance, and the heaven of ultimate color) have nine levels;From the heaven of no worries to the ultimate heaven of form, it is the five pure abode heaven, and it is the temporary residence of the Hinayana saints who do not return to the fruit and the Mahayana Bodhisattva.The four meditations and heavens correspond to four kinds of meditations.All living beings in the form realm are reborn due to merits of meditation, and no longer have the desire to eat, men and women, and their lifespan is longer than that of the heavenly beings and humans in the desire realm. They are calculated based on "catastrophe".When the lifespan of heaven and humans in the form realm is about to end, their merits are weakened and they often fall into the realm of hungry ghosts and animals. Even if they are reborn in the realm of humanity, they are mostly stupid people.

The sentient beings in the formless realm are in a state of meditation for a long time during their lifespan, and their lifespan is 80,000 great kalpas.Many heretics practice meditation and believe that meditation is the highest state of practice, but this will become the cause of reincarnation of the formless realm, and it is not ultimate liberation.When his life is about to end, he will be resentful. Because of the evil view that "liberation does not exist" in the mind before death, he will often fall into the three evil realms for many lifetimes.

Because I have accumulated a lot of misfortune blessings, and even some blessings are mixed with evil thoughts such as arrogance, such as treating other new refuges or fellow practitioners who have not surpassed them because of their long practice of chanting mantras for a long time;Or because you give more than others, you will feel arrogant. These blessings cannot lead people to ultimate liberation from the cycle of reincarnation. You will often be reborn in the heaven because of your wish to be obsessed with it. You will not develop renunciation and diligent listening, thinking and practicing Buddhism, and you will not have the opportunity to continue to accumulate blessings and repent sins.Therefore, those who practice should listen carefully!The sufferings in heaven have not been cut off!The joy of heaven is not eternal!

Some people like to enjoy the glory and wealth of the world, while others hope to go to heaven to continue to enjoy higher levels of joy, but after using up blessings, they will feel unprecedented pain.From the perspective of practice, the human world is more conducive to practice and achievement than the heavens, and being born in a middle-aged family is more qualified to practice than being born in a wealthy family.If you follow the virtuous master to study and practice Buddhism without cause and condition, you will be born in a wealthy family, but the chance of wasting blessings is greatly increased.Just like the children of rich families, they live in luxury and spend time since childhood. When their blessings are exhausted too early, they will feel the pain of poverty. This feeling of suffering is completely different from the poor who are used to living in poverty. From rich to poor, they are extremely miserable.The same is true for all sentient beings in the heaven. Exhausting blessings is like the end of the vacation, but this vacation has spent all the money. Will life be better in the future?

2024-02-05 18:05
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