Who is I who has not been born to me?
Who was I when I was born?
Joy when coming and sorrow,
Who is hazy?
- "Praise Monk Poem" Qing Shunzhi
This poem comes from the Qing Dynasty Shunzhi Emperor's "Praise Monk Poem".
"Who am I who has not been born to me?" Who was I when I was born?" Indeed! Which of us knows where we're from? And where do I know who I was before my parents gave birth to me?
The human body is formed by the harmony of the four great and five aggregates of causes, and once these causes are dispersed, they become another person. People have the "mystery of separating the yin", circulating in the five fun and six paths, changing a body and not knowing the past life and the next life; What did my parents know before they gave birth to me? After my parents gave birth to me, who am I?
There was a Zen master who came to the donor's house, and it happened that the owner gave birth to a son, and the congratulations were endless and full of joy. But the Zen master cried loudly at the door. The master asked very strangely, "My family has just added children and grandchildren, and everyone is happy for me, so why are you crying?" The Zen master replied, "I'm not crying anything else, I'm crying about another dead man in your house." Ordinary people are "born to rejoice, and die to grieve", but what is true sorrow? What is true joy?
Life comes from death, not born can not die, there is life to die. The Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu made a poem in which he said: "Wine debts are common everywhere, and life is rare for seventy years." Later people for the length of life and death, in addition to sighing, some people also joked: I am seventy years old is not surprising, the first ten years are young, the last ten years of aging, the middle is only fifty years; Half of it passed at night again, counting only twenty-five years, and twenty-five years of running and worrying!
Scientists have calculated that modern people can live to one hundred and twenty years old, but in the infinite cosmic time and space, one hundred and twenty years old is also a moment, not to mention that not all people can have a hundred years of high life, many people in the dark night, when the eyes are hazy, a breath can not come up to a life!
The joy of life and the sorrow of death are the common feelings of human beings, but for a wise person, he understands the meaning of life, will not let the precious life be wasted, and will not let himself die of drunken dreams. Just as Buddhism calls death a "past life" and describes a person's death as a housewarming, isn't such a death also a welcome thing? Therefore, we must be vigilant against the confusion of life and death, and when facing life and death, we must also be able to go with nature and deal with it calmly!