Dhamma for Lifestyle (19)

Alive and Death with Difficulties

People have to face six difficulties when they are alive. For them:

Non valuable Kilesa are difficult to discard.
Invisible ten strings (ten Samyojana) are difficult to untie.
Smokeless eleven Raga fires are difficult to extinguish.
Nibbana which is not a far journey is difficult to reach.
Properties without owner (Saddha, Sila, Suta, Caga, Panna, Hiri, Ottapa_ the seven properties of a virtuous person) are difficult to find.
Pregnant man is difficult to give birth.

Also, people die with six difficulties. They will:

Die pennyless however they are rich.
Die without strength however they are as strong as elephant.
Starve and die however they can eat a lot.
Die dumb however they are a good speaker.
Die ugly however they are as pretty as a celestial being.
Be hated and die however they have many loved ones.

စာကိုး။ ပ႑ဝ၊ ဦး (စတုဘုမၼိကငွက္တြင္းဆရာေတာ္)။ ေနလွ်င္ ၆ခ်က္၊ ေသလွ်င္ ၆ခ်က္။
 
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