Dear friends have you
ever pay attention to a chicken. What do they do? Have you ever thought, all of
us are like a chicken? Like a chicken who is fed by the owner.
If you pay your attention wisely you will understand all of us
are similar to a chicken who is fed by its owner. That is we are fed by the
king of death which direct us for rebirth and suffering
What does a chicken do?
Early in the morning a chicken wake up and go outside looking
for food its owner has scatter. Chicken look for the foods for its baby chicks.
In the evening it goes back to its coop to sleep. And then again the next day
morning chicken will repeat the same until it has been slaughtered by its
owner.
The chicken and the
owner thinks in two different way
The owner scatter food for the chicken every day. He weigh the
chicken and feel happy when the chicken has grown enough to supply with meat.
The chicken engross with the food provided by its master. When
the master weigh the chicken it thinks the master is showing affection. Chicken
do never see the danger of its master feeding it and the slaughtering.
Chicken, you and me
Like the chicken who engross in food, we all engrossed in
sights, sounds, smell, tastes, tactile sensations, and ideas. We carry a lot of
bad Karma on these. We take these engrossed as our self and cling onto the
cycle of rebirth and suffering.
King of death and
suffering
Engrossed in sights, sounds, smell, tastes, tactile sensations,
and ideas we have no sense enough that we are growing older. How many lives we
will be born again, in which form weather in hell, as an animal in heaven or as
a human being?
Until we end the craving for sights, sounds, smell, tastes,
tactile sensations, and ideas we will do clinging. The clinging will lead to
the existence of us in any form of life. With the existence we carry all form
of suffering as suffering of birth, old age, illness, death, encountering what
is unpleasant, separation from what is pleasant, not getting what you want and
the suffering of five appropriate aggregates.
Like the chicken we engross in the clinging until the king of
death direct us towards the suffering similar to the chicken been
slaughter by its owner.
Therefore the wise person will make an effort to end the craving
there by cease the clinging and rebirth. Thus the wise will attain the
ultimate happiness of nibbana.
……. May you have the wisdom to end suffering……………..
Source : truebuddhistteachings.org
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