The assumption that the next moment you die and the next you are still alive is actually the assumption that the probability is the same, but people are diligently accumulating money, consolidating their position, managing their feelings, and caring for their bodies just to live better, but ignoring another thing that can also happen.
——" The Cultivation of the Heartland of Forward Notes"
Text: ShiaRongbo Khenpo
People will always hold the psychology of luck, thinking that those terminal illnesses, disasters and so on will not fall on them. However, if you go to the hospital and look at the rooms that are packed with wards, you will be surprised by the number of patients. And among those patients, there must be people who are about the same age as you, or have similar educational backgrounds, work experiences, almost the same stage of life, facing similar pressures and problems, if they are knocked down by the disease, why must the same disease not attack you? In fact, before being diagnosed with the disease, those patients probably thought that they would be luckier than others, and what happened to others would not happen to them, but this hypothesis was not based on much basis.
Once the facts are different from what they think, they are angry and aggrieved, and repeatedly ask: "Why me?" "Feel like you're the most innocent person in the world. This is how most of us approach life: when things go well, immersed in wishful thinking, believing that everything will always be as good as we wish, and any change is unexpected and difficult to accept.
However, this attitude can neither retain the good moments nor prevent the arrival of changes, but only makes us fragile and stubborn, so that even the biggest changes are difficult for us to wake up: have we always had too one-sided views on life, and treated impermanence too hasty and conceited?
In addition to deaths due to illness, there are also many people who die every year due to traffic accidents, natural disasters, and accidents in work and life. If you think about everyone's daily life, it is not too much to say that "there is a lot of danger".
The assumption that the next moment you die and the next you are still alive is actually the assumption that the probability is the same, but people are diligently accumulating money, consolidating their position, managing their feelings, and caring for their bodies just to live better, but ignoring another thing that can also happen. Once death comes, what can we save and rely on? How much money, status, feelings, and body can help?
--Shia Rongbo Khenpo, "The Cultivation of the Heartland of The Forward Notes"
[Our hearts are an acre of land, what to sow and what to reap.] Modern life brings abundant material pleasures, but it makes our hearts dry and desolate as never before, and the more we have, the more impetuous and empty we become. Combined with traditional meditation methods, "Forward Notes on cultivating the Heart Field" explores how to achieve physical and mental peace in the right way in modern society, like a lamp, guiding us to discover the source of inner happiness. 】