Good morning everyone. Today I would like to share with everyone a story given by the Buddha
four wives let's find out today.
Back to the old time Buddha Shakyamuni explained his story to all his disciples
one rich man in this country he had four wives when he married the first wife he always enjoys
spending time with his wife but unfortunately this first wife her body is not healthy all the time
half of the time she was sick so this rich man even though he enjoyed the time with
this first wife but because she always sick most of the time and he decide to marry another woman
and one day he saw this one young beautiful girl in this city he decided to marry her
but unfortunately this young girl already have engagement with another young man but these rich
man he used his money and power to rob this woman and force this young girl to marry him
so this rich man has a second wife and this second wife is very beautiful and young
he enjoys all the time when every time he can see her
but this young woman wasn't willing to marry this man so every time when she saw him she just
walked away and sometimes she even talked to other men in this city so this brings a lot of anger and
attachment with this second wife so this rich men decide to marry a third woman when he married
with this third wife all the time they enjoy the time when they are together but these third wife
enjoy to travel by herself so most of the time they are apart from each other so this rich man
still feel not fulfilled all his wishes so he decided to marry the fourth wife
and once he married the fourth wife he never really paid attention to her at all
but the fourth wife always obeyed all the older by this rich man but he always ignored her one day
this rich man realized he's going to die and he decided to ask his first wife to say I really
enjoy the time when you are with me when you are healthy can you please go with me when I die
and the first wife say forget about it I will never able to go with you because even my own
body I felt attached so much how can I give up my own life to follow with you and the rich man go
to the second wife and also the same request to ask the second wife die with him together
and the second wife said as you know I wasn't willing to marry with you I married you by your
force by your money by your power and definitely when you die I will never ever want to go with you
and the rich man continue to ask for the third wife
and third wife say as you know when you still healthy and I always enjoy to travel
we most of time apart each other even though we enjoy the time when we are together
how can you expect me will die together with you when you finish this turn of life
so this rich man become quite depressed and he decides to go for the fourth wife and he said
you are the fourth wife I marry I never actually pay attention to you at all because you just
do whatever you need to do I do not need to put my attention to you you are just a reactive
to resolve everything for me you are with me all the time but I never pay attention to you
once these man requests this fourth wife the youngest wife immediately knocking her head saying
of course I would love to go with you all the time wherever you want to go once this fourth
wife said this this rich man closed his eye and he died once Buddha explained this four wife story
and he continued it liberated story he said my dear disciple as you already see this obviously
this is our life when we were born our is always with us we never been apart from this body but
unfortunately most of time we're suffering with illness, aging. It's just like this a first wife
they want to spend time together but unfortunately the first wife always gets sick most of the time
this is our body the second wife represents the wealth the money remember I say
this woman doesn't want to get married with this rich man at least rich man use his power to
force this young woman to marry him so the second wife name would really want to be with this rich
man sometimes the rich man even get jealous when he cannot really occupy the second wife's mind
it's just like a the human's wealth the money sometimes we use illegal or unfaithful way
to make ourselves rich but actually nothing can be really reached because
those money never want to go with us when we die once we stop our last breath
we die nothing we can carry forward neither the body or the money
and on the third wife obviously lee's third wife is like our family members we always
want to enjoy the time with them but most of the time because of work because travel our family
member hardly can be with us all the time and the fourth wife represents the Karma remember
she was always taking care everything follow whatever the rich man want to do but rich men
never really pay attention to her at all when he was still alive it's just like our karma we never
be aware of our body speech and mind when we still alive but once we die all the past action we did
through our body the speech and our my activity karma is always carrying on forward even though
when we finish this turn of the life when we die so these four wives represent our physical body
our wealth the money the power the third wife represents the relatives our family member the
fourth wife is the Karma so once Buddha say that all the disciples of the Buddha realize
the most important part we need to taken care of during each turn of life tuition
is the Karma because the karma is always with us life after life until we enlighten
attain our Buddhahood I wish by ending of this short story you realize this
full wife with us all the time we do which one we want to pay attention more as depends on our
own judgment call I wish you enjoy and hope next time you'll join me again. Thank you.