HELLO DEATH, GOODBYE LIFE
When death comes, as it must, how would you face it? Could you smile, your sweetest smile yet, and say; "Hello Death, Goodbye life"?
Yes, could you meet death without fear, but with courage and understanding? Could you greet it as you would a long.
lost friend, like someone who had not been calling upon you for a long time.
and who, you are now seeing, coming from after? After all, death is no stranger to us; for we have lived and died innumerable times, encountering one rebirth after another in this, our long sojourn in samsara, the never ending round in birth and death. Yes, death, we can say is just another change in existence, just moving on yet again.
This book look at life and death from a Buddhist context - how we can live well and die well, how we can beautify our lives with the beautiful values of love, wisdom and compassion, that must lead in a beautiful end, a beautiful death.
ISBN - 955-8129-04-6
Illustrated By - Hor Tuck Loon
Size - 21.5cm x 14cm x 0.8cm
Publisher - Buddhist Cultural Centre
Pages - 118
Contents
- Saying it with flowers too
- We can meditate
- Alleviating suffering
- The man and the scorpion
- The five Precepts
- Rebirth is instantaneous
- How sharing of merits is effected
- A Buddhist funeral is a simple funeral
- We can learn from others
- Grief is not suppressed but acknowledged
- As for me
- Tears of joy
- Making the atmosphere serene
- The last thought - moment
- When four mountains come a- rolling
- A sense of urgency
- Contemplation leades to understanding and acceptance
- No lamenting can touch the ashes of the dead
- Death is no stranger to us
- Momentary death
- Food for thought