Publish Date:2024-07-10
(56) Nirvana can never be separated from moksa (liberation from samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth and all of the sufferings and limitation of the worldly existence). It is reasonable for us to regard nirvana as the cause which leads to moksa, because a practitioner needs to have fully realized in the first place that the worldly life is in nature an emptiness. It is by dint of such a realization that he can be led to free himself of any attachment to the worldly life and accept and achieve nirvana. Therefrom he would be exempted from all sufferings arising from samsara. A true votary of Buddhism is bound to die at the end of his mortal life, but his right faith in Buddhism enables him to be immune to all sufferings of worldly life throughout the duration of his mortal life. Nor would he be tormented by deathbed throe at the moment when his mortal life expires. Why? It is due to absence in him of any attachment to life. Detachment from any obsession with the mundane life makes him completely nonchalant of death. A true Buddhist votary faces his death as calmly as he would face his everyday life, because he regards the duration lasting between birth and death merely as a process which witnesses the beginning and the end of his greed or avarice. Death of a human being can be likened to the ruin of an edifice which, as an insentient existence, knows neither birth nor death.(From My Heart My Buddha)
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