《瑜伽師地論》 =Yogacarabhumi-sastra; 生死循環=The cycle of birth and death Dependent-Origination; 生死意涵=The meaning of life and death Life education; 生命教育=Life education; 十二因緣= Dependent-Origination; 業=karma
Yogacarabhumi-sastra (Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra) , composed in India about between 300 and 350 CE; translated into Chinese by Xuanzang from 646 to 648. In East Asia authorship is attributed to Maitreya, but Tibetan tradition considers it to have been composed by Asanga. This thesis is elucidated to a study of Yogacarabhumi-sastra about the exposition of human life and death. What is the intrinsic quality of life? ”All that are born will die”; it is always the truth of the mundane world. “Death” means the man vanishes, no longer exists any more; we all know that sooner or later, death will come. The most important thing in life is death; people desire to live and hate to die, but all living beings die, as a creature, nobody can escape death. In Buddhism, one’s death is not the end, a living body can die, but its consciousness never dies, is known as “to be reborn”, it means to go from here to there. When people comprehend the extreme meaning of the life and death, he will be able to overcome the death. The aim of this paper is to investigate the training of the mind at the last moment of life, and to help our life change for the better angles. According to the teachings of the Yogacarabhumi-sastra: 「Dependent-Origination」 is the highest principle for life in the universe. In Buddhism, the twelve stages in the cycle of birth and death, beginning with delusion arising from karma conditions, until the last death, and then starting the cycle again. Everything in the world has its cause, nothing arises without a cause. If you want to get rid of suffering, you have to find out the cause. When the cause has been eradicated, there will not be any effect. We must know the law of cause and effect, whether we do anything, we have planted a cause in our mind; karma is because of our actions, this is the law of karma and its consequence. Many people think that they have done nothing wrong in this life; they should not deserve bad karma effects, but in fact, we must accept retribution for what we did in the past. When the causes and conditions ripen, wholesome actions bring positive results, unwholesome actions bring negative results. This dissertation discusses the conception of Yogacarabhumi-sastra from the viewpoint of life-and-death studies. Everybody is moving towards the end of life: the body is getting older and weaker; this is the reason why people are seeking the true path which leads the life to the cessation of suffering. What is the cause of birth and death? How to get liberation from cyclic existence (samara) and suffering? The mind needs to be controlled by exercises, stop our affliction and habitual negative thoughts; we have to cultivate the good thoughts and training our intrinsic mind. How to have a good thought and positive thinking to die during the end of human life? It is not only at the last moment of our life that our mind should be mindful, but should be this way also during the daily life. Right practice brings the real benefits for living a meaningful life, if we have a com
