Ajahn Suchart
“As there are fewer human bodies compare to the animals, it
becomes easier to be reborn as an animal than a human being.”
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“When you listen to Dhamma talks, you’ll learn something
that you haven’t heard before especially about the benefits that you can get
from studying Buddhism and the benefits of becoming a human being. You must be
a human being to be able to study the teachings of the Buddha. And if you
happen to be born in the time where there is the teachings of the Buddha, this
is a very fortunate occasion. This occasion rarely happens because the
enlightenment of a Buddha only happens once in a very long long time. It takes
many million years for someone to become an enlightened Buddha, who come to the
world and teach the Dhamma.
Furthermore, our birth as a human being is not easy if you
compare to the births of animals because there are more animals on this earth
than human beings. You need a human body to create another human body. As there
are fewer human bodies compare to the animals, it becomes easier to be reborn
as an animal than a human being.
Besides that, you can also be reborn to become a spiritual
being first before you can become a human being. It’s because when you are born
as a human being, you might do good and bad kamma, so when you die, you have to
go and pay your kamma first. If you do good kamma, you will become a spiritual
being that has a lot of happiness, which is called as a being in heaven or an
angel. If you do bad kamma, you will become a spiritual being that have a lot
of suffering, which is called as a being in hell. These are the state of mind
that you have to go before you can come and take a human birth.
In each human birth, you are not guaranteed that you will
meet the Buddha or his teachings. So, in this life time, it’s a great fortune
that you are born as a human being and you come across the teachings of the
Buddha. Only human being can appreciate and gain the benefits of listening to
the Dhamma talks. This is basically what you should be thankful for and the
reason that you should try to make use of this fortunate occasion as best as
possible by concentrating on the study of the Buddha’s teachings.”
Youtube: “Dhamma in English, Dec 9, 2018.”
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
www.phrasuchart.com
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