The moment of death

This is not something you can learn, not something you can abandon or retain. It is not in your physical matter; don’t mistakenly accept the channels of sense, for they will cheat you on the last day of your life, when they will be in a state of punitive agitation, of no use at all.

-Yantou (ZFYZ vol. 1)

I ask you, on the last day of the last month, when the four gross elements are about to disintegrate, can what you have learned all along by memorization be kept in mind? When you can keep it in mind, do you pay attention? At such a time, consciousness is already dim—how can you keep anything in mind? Since you can’t, you’ll surely enter the wombs of donkeys, the bellies of horses, experiencing retribution for what you have done.

-Dahui (ZFYZ vol. 2)

What value is your learning at the moment of death?

Submitted August 23, 2020 at 04:44AM by Temicco https://ift.tt/3l9Jf4h