tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post7169166441285597720..comments2024-03-18T10:07:38.422+08:00Comments on Awakening to Reality: Presence and the Nature of PresenceSohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-23613679684108531302018-09-17T21:47:38.115+08:002018-09-17T21:47:38.115+08:00The very basics of dharma teaches the importance o...The very basics of dharma teaches the importance of the precious human birth. Human birth is the most rare and most precious thing to be acquired, and the likelihood of acquiring a human body and thus the possibility to attain enlightenment is likened by Buddha to be like a turtle coming to the surface once every hundred years. Our human birth is as rare as that. Much more common it is to be born as one of the billions and zillions of lower realm beings. For example it is estimated that there are 10,000 trillion ants on earth, needless to speak of those unseen beings of hungry ghosts, and so forth.<br /><br />So please consider what a wonderful gift our human life is, how precious it is, how fragile and short it is, and put it to good use. Attain enlightenment and help other sentient beings. If you are depressed, enlightenment can actually cure it, as Pam Tan wrote in http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2018/09/pams-awakening.html<br /><br />Do seek support if you are having recurrent suicidal thoughts -- call suicide hotline in your country.Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-32580053738279226672018-09-17T21:25:00.405+08:002018-09-17T21:25:00.405+08:00If suicide is commited before any realization is a...If suicide is commited before any realization is attained,what are the consequences? What kind of astral realm will one be after leaving this body by force?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-76428288751004062782018-09-17T21:22:03.910+08:002018-09-17T21:22:03.910+08:00What kind of practice would you recommend to someo...What kind of practice would you recommend to someone who doesnt want to undergo meaningless physical struggle of feeding this fragile body anymore? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com