Answering questions like an enlightened person! With “Ajarn Beer kontuenthum” Why are we born? Asking questions like this is wrong. Can we die now to end suffering? The Buddha said that it is the worst of all wrongdoings. Destroying one’s own life is just running from a tiger into a crocodile’s mouth. Going to hell. Can you handle it? Listen together on WOODY FM.
There is a lot of interest in this trend these days. What phenomena of Dhamma have you seen? Ajarn Beer : People are starting to understand the Buddha’s teachings more about having wrong views and changing from wrong views to correct views. What is clearly seen is this.
If someone comes to tell the teacher that I see that I have gained benefits from worshipping the gods, can I do it?
Ajarn Beer: Actually, it is possible to do it, it is not a problem, it is not wrong, but the teacher just tells the principles of what is possible and what is not. Therefore, in what is their belief, they understand by themselves that praying to the gods will make their life prosperous. The question is, why do people born abroad not pray to the gods like us, but why are they successful by taking action according to their own principles of reason?
Therefore, our country is a theistic country that is instilled with the gods and goddesses. There is a lot of content from current social trends in the world about beliefs that cause people to be afraid. When every human being is attacked by fear, they seek refuge. Mostly, they seek the wrong refuge, causing their lives to follow the flow of those wrong views. It is not strange that a person has heard this kind of instillation since childhood, and when they grow up, there is content like this all over the country.
In fact, the teachings of the Lord Buddha are not hard to find. However, listening to fortune-telling content, rituals, or stories about beliefs that are not based on truth is everywhere. It is not strange that people will lean towards this side, even if they are successful in life. Even though their success in life is due to factors from their own actions and their own knowledge and abilities.
In the cycle of death and rebirth On the day we reach the point where everything will be extinguished, everything will become everything. It stuck in my head saying, what next?
Ajarn Beer: I want to be free from suffering. But I’m still happy that it’s been born continuously. Gradually refine yourself most of the time in our world, if we are still addicted to the matter of sexual addiction. This word is not sexual. It is wanting, wanting to have, wanting to be, wanting to have a house, having a car, wanting to continue being born like this because I feel that living as a person is happy. But further births do not end with human births 5 beliefs about the path to beings: hell, beasts, ghosts, humans, angels. People who still want to be born will just stick to being born as humans or angels. But in reality, we forget that we may be born as a beast or hell.
The Buddha said that if anyone sees this danger, they will not want it to happen again. And it is very difficult for us to have a chance to be born again as a human being. Which people often think that if I die and then I am born, I should probably be born into the human world and live the same life as before but the reality is it’s not. When we are stuck in this state, when we vipassana When I am praying, I will get stuck here and I will feel what will happen next. In the future life that has passed, will there be a chance to return to the present happiness?
Will I be able to earn as much money as I do now? When thoughts like this arise Plus we want to be free from suffering. But I also want to continue to be happy in my birth. Lord Buddha said that the lives of millions of people in the world flow down to suffering together even happiness must flow into suffering. In this world, there is nothing truly happy; everything leads to decay. Walking into suffering walking towards loss Being separated and disappointed from the things you love over and over again
Prepare for liberation?
Ajarn Beer: If you go and wait to be freed, now that’s where we’ll go. It could not prepare itself to consider it. While we are alive, we cannot yet consider ourselves to accept that there will be happiness and suffering when we go or what can you let go of? The Buddha said that seeing fault is not easy because it is difficult to see. You can see that you are sick even though you are healthy. Therefore, the Buddha had to teach us to see gradually in order by considering.
Therefore, the most important idea If we keep waiting to die, it won’t happen in time. We must have mindfulness and awareness of the present moment in every moment. Begin to consider yourself realistically, that nothing is your real self there is only lust, our desire to seize that thing as mine. But in truth, nothing belongs to me because it will lead to decay. So it causes us suffering. Because we flow with the flow of these things.
Why are people born? This question gets asked very often?
Ajarn Beer: This is the wrong question. During the Buddha’s time, this question was often asked of the Buddha: Why was he born? The Buddha said that asking questions is not correct. The correct question is, what is the cause and effect of our birth? Everyone has the same birth factors. It is lust, wanting, wanting Want to have, want to be, be the beginning But the tallest one is Awicha. Ignorance of the Four Noble Truths is the beginning of birth, aging, sickness, and death of people in the world.
of animals in the world When ignorance arises, then refined thoughts arise. When birth appears, there is always deterioration that follows. Then there must be sorrow and anxiety about that When we cling to something, we suffer in it. It will continue like this. Like we want to be born Want to live again Therefore cannot escape from this kind of repeated birth. Because lust is the fuel, that is, desire. So the Buddha said that because of the end of desire Thus ending all suffering.
A simple release of suffering?
Ajarn Beer: The only way is to accept the truth. Teachers will always teach people to accept the truth. For example, sometimes there are people who suffer from depression. He said he wanted to kill himself. I will start teaching him what happened. Can you accept the reality that what happened was the result of your own actions? If we can accept this, we ourselves will be able to escape from the suffering that is about to happen If he can accept this, he will be able to understand the next step. Everything is caused by our own actions. Why be sad about it? Think in a good way. Don’t think in a bad way.
When you are suffering, why do you have to think about it yourself? Think about how much more prosperous our life will be if we can get through this factor. Take this as a lesson that from now on we will not go back to doing this again the consequences of this kind of action will not come back to us. Stay in the present moment, focus your mind, and look back at your own heart. Stop thinking first. Clear up all misconceptions. If you can accept this, you yourself will be the happiest. No one will be the happiest when we accept the truth of our actions.
If I replied that I should die now in order to extinguish everything, what would the teacher say?
Ajard Beer : Are you sure it’s over? I will tell you that dying now will escape the tiger and crocodile. Do you know how serious it is to die from destroying your own life? With the punishment received, hell, can you accept it? he suffering right now is just crying. The suffering in hell is stabbed with spears all day and all night, never ending, never ending, take whatever you choose. Right now, there is just this much suffering, whether it will be life or death. The suffering and tears and hell cannot be compared. If we can’t accept this and be mindful, we will not be happy in the present. Because suicide is a tragedy the Buddha said that the last consciousness before death is the one that leads to rebirth. If you do bad things throughout your life, do more bad than good. The last mental thought before death of very few virtuous thoughts leads to hell. Beast and Spirit But throughout my life, I have always done good, but the last moment of my mind before I die, I think about bad thoughts, bad thoughts, which can lead to hell and the birth of beasts.
