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dear tai dear Sangha I had the blessing
of receiving teachings from you for such
a long time since the 1980s and I thank
you deeply 13 years 34 years yes that's
right the family retreats and in
Honolulu you are my continuation body
I work as a psychotherapist and even
though I have had such wonderful
teachings I found when I was diagnosed
with cancer 12 years ago that it was
extremely hard and I learned a new way
about suffering in my body and mind and
because I had a practice I really did
very well through the process but now I
work with people with cancer and I have
created a mindfulness retreat for people
with cancer and I know well that the
fear is so different when the fear of
death is not abstract it's in your own
body and the fear of uncertainty where
people live constantly from test to test
and I would love any teachings that you
might give us on how to work with these
deep fears and anything else you might
say that I would like to pass on to this
community thank you
and it's rated we have been meditating
on this topic look into the notion of
death and fear and we know that when you
get the right view you'll be free from
fear and despair and that is why if we
have the right view not as a theory but
as a real experience and then actually
help people a lot when you sit close to
a person who is dying have you have that
inside of no birth and no death if you
have that peace and then you can be very
helpful and the person who is dying will
not suffer and he or she can die
peacefully that is in the case of
another Pedic the lay practitioner and
not up in decay was a lay practitioner
he was a businessman and when he
travelled to the kingdom of Raja the
city of Nashik he met with the Buddha
for the first time and he invited Buddha
to come to his country serviced to his
city service T and you know for him
practice a park a lovely Park to be
serve as a practice center and then they
a lot happened I was a dime the
venerable shariputra came together with
his younger brother in the Dharma Ananda
and as we recommended by the Buddha and
then during that during that visit shall
we prepare to try to help another picnic
to touch the nature of no birth and no
death in him very skillfully and the
story is written down in a Sutra or
teaching given to the dying person and
shariputra is the Big Brother the big
diamond brother of all of us
it was very skillful another I was
sitting close to him and the first thing
they asked dear dear friend how do you
feel your body is depending a body
decreasing still increasing and that is
the question of a doctor right and not
the pinnacle said dear venerable it does
not seem that the pain in my body is
decreasing its increasing all the time
I suffer very much I feel very painful
and responding to that
shariputra said in that case let us
meditate on the three jewels the
mindfulness of
the three jewels and this kind of
meditation that has the object Buddha
Dhamma and Sangha and the the offer a
guided meditation exercise the two monks
were supporting the dying person to
practice recollection on the Buddha
recollection of the Dhamma recognition
in the Sangha and he can learn from his
from their experiences because sorry
Putra was a very interesting monk
he knew that are not top Anika had taken
a lot a great deal of pleasure serving
the Buddha and the Sangha it was
business man he had a very lovely heart
you know he helped so many poor
destitute people in the city of travesty
and that is why they love him so much
and they gave him that beautiful name
anathapindika
which is the one who care for the
hapless people his real name is su data
and he offered the Buddha he had offered
the Buddha a beautiful part to be used
as a practice center where people come
and listen to the Dhamma talks and
practice recitation of mindfulness
trainings and sharings
he encouraged his children to come with
him to practice and every time he he he
think of the Buddha the Sangha
every time he there's something it is
something to support the Buddha and SIA
he got a lot of happiness serving the
Buddha and the Sangha learning the
Dharma bring brought him a lot of
happiness some there are many seeds of
happiness planted already in his high
consciousness and the inside of sorry
Putra is that if we focus of attention
the Buddha and the Dhamma and the Sangha
and what the seed of happiness already
in him and then feeling of joy and
happiness will be water and manifest and
they will create a balance between the
joy and pain and men will suffer less I
think all psychotherapists have to learn
from our Vic Dhamma brother
shariputra and after five eight minutes
of practice recollecting recollection of
the Buddha Dhamma and Sangha and not
happening I was able to smile so sitting
close to the Dead Beth of someone you
have to recognize the seat of happiness
in Hema and you have to inquire in
advance and you will say something to
water the seat of happiness edema and
that water the seeds of happiness and
create a feeling of joy and happiness
that will establish the balance and the
main woman will suffer less
and then and and then he shall I could
continue with the meditation the six
sense organs which is eyes the ear nose
tongue and a ball in the mind six and
subjects like the form sound smell touch
and and six consciousness and to help to
help a lot Topeka to see that these
things are formations they have come
from nowhere when conditions are
sufficient to the manifest like that
they have come nowhere and they go
nowhere I won't know where no coming no
going that is the insight that we get
when you practice like that he focus
they try to focus his attention on the
fact that there is there are four
elements in our body
what air heat so I inside and outside
and to help the dying person see that
human being is made of these elements
and when conditions are sufficient they
manifest and when conditions are no
longer sufficient they stop that
manifestation and manifests otherwise
and there is no birth and no death no
going hello coming and at the end of
toward the end of the meditation this
Pinnacle's crying and Anna dad did not
understand the meaning of these tears he
was very concerned he said dear friend
why do you cry didn't you did not
succeed in a meditation in the guided
meditation no venerable Ananda I did it
very well I succeed fully in my guided
meditation oh you are regretting
something you still regret something
no whenever I don't regret anything
and then why do you cry done and I'm not
happy dick said to another
dear venerable Ananda I cry because I am
so moved I have served this Buddha the
Dhamma and the Sangha more than thirty
years but I have never received such a
wonderful teaching and practice that can
liberate me like today the change of no
birth and no death I'm free now I'm not
afraid of dying I know the nature of no
coming no Hui I can see my continuation
and I said dear friend you don't know
but that teaching we monastic you
receive almost every day
anathapindika said dear venerable Ananda
of course the lay people who are so busy
we have no time to receive this kind of
teaching and practice but there are
those of us who are not too busy and we
are ready to receive that wonderful
teaching and put it on the practice
so please go back to the buddha our
teacher and tell him that there are lay
people who can receive and put into
practice this kind of deep teaching and
then he spoke for the sake in the name
of the lay community and then under said
don't worry my friend after this I will
go back right away to the Lord and tell
him about your request and then after
that an attack will pinnacle and I
peacefully with a smile on his lips
so the Sutra here the teaching given to
the dying person is available in the
plum leash ending book we had to study
we had to practice and he can be very
helpful in making the people who died
suffer less who who are very slowly to
suffer less but we even if we do not
have cancer how cancer has been healed
we have to practice we have to continue
to practice because you don't practice
it can come back it can green you
quickly so it's very important that you
keep the practice alive and you always
have a Sangha behind you to support you
but this these are different in Montreal
Canada
doctor gave him only three months to
live but after he met the Sangha and
attended wonder teeth they took in the
practice into his heart and practice and
he lived more than ten more than ten
years but because after that he is his
wife did something I have some kind of
relationship that make him suffer
and he could not preserve continue his
practice and that is why the situation
that we generate very quickly and he
died I think we need to be in touch with
Sangha always and when we when something
like that happens we have to to renew
our practice to lean on the Sangha
otherwise we will suffer like that that
their friend in Canada
and this addiction is not only for
psycho therapist this dish info is for
all of us
monastics and lay practitioners our life