{"id":192,"date":"2015-08-07T23:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/?page_id=192"},"modified":"2015-08-08T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T12:18:08","slug":"the-meaning-of-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/?page_id=192","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Life-Care.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-238 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Life-Care-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Life Care\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Life-Care-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Life-Care.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0If one can make good use of all the resources in this very lifetime, including: one\u2019s own wealth, knowledge, abilities, time, longevity and health, so that one can have a more in-depth understanding of<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> one\u2019s post-death life<\/span>, of \u201chow to extend beyond it, how to deal with adversities, and how to escape from dangers\u201d. It can also help one to redefine one\u2019s own attitudes and ways of \u201cdealing with people and things\u201d, so as to discard all evil behaviors while uphold goodness and kindness to all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the same time, it can help one to use suitable and wise methods <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">to positively train and enhance the degrees of clarity and concentration of one\u2019s \u201cmental strength\u201d for the further elevation of one\u2019s spiritual state<\/span>, and also learn how to cope with the new form and mode of existence after one\u2019s own death. In this way, it would <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">continuously help one to elevate the spiritual realm of one\u2019s own life<\/span> until being \u201cliberated from the cycle of karmic existence\u201d, and thus to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">totally break away from all of the shackles of life and existence<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Such good use and handling of this lifetime\u2019s resources will further enrich this very life, enhance and elevate the evolutionary process of life, and to be finally liberated from all of the shackles of this life, so as to face death squarely. One can even go further by the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cmaking use of death\u201d<\/span> to accelerate the evolutionary process of one\u2019s \u201cspiritual life\u201d, such that one has no regrets for \u201cwhat one has possessed and existed\u201d in<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> this lifetime<\/span>, and can further live up to the expectations of one\u2019s<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> future<\/span> life. This is, indeed, the true<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> \u201cmeaning of life\u201d<\/strong><\/span>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chinese sage Zhuangzi had once said:<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> \u201cGood in my life, good in my death\u201d<\/span>, which means that<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> \u201cif one can take care of one\u2019s life well, one can also face one\u2019s death squarely with ease\u201d<\/span>. If one can positively face one\u2019s own life, understand what life is all about, learn how to deal with life, and can even ultimately control one\u2019s own life with ease, without any entanglements, and neither will one have to face again the \u201ccycle of karmic existence\u201d, then they are, indeed, the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cmasters of their lives\u201d<\/span> who can truly understand the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cessence of life\u201d<\/strong><\/span>: If one can truly understand life well, then one will also truly understand death as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When one can cherish what one has in this life, display the driving force of life to release and develop one&#8217;s potential and radiance of life to their fullest extent, one will then be able to liberate oneself from the spinning-wheel-like shackles of life and existence (i.e. the \u201ccycle of karmic existence\u201d), and stop feeling helpless in the continual \u201ccycles of life and death\u201d. This kind of wisdom is as bright as the \u201clight\u201d itself, and is also the<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> \u201ctrue meaning and essence of life\u201d<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ever since the Year 2000, the Dudjom Buddhist Association (International) has spared no efforts in promoting <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cLife and Death Education\u201d<\/span>, so as to facilitate people in this modern world to re-think, re-evaluate, and reflect from a totally new vantage point on the major critical issue in one\u2019s life \u2013 \u201cLife and Death\u201d, and to foster new insights for the true meaning and value of one\u2019s life with a new understanding, so that they know how to deal with the operations of the<span style=\"color: #339966;\"> \u201cpost-death world\u201d<\/span>, and to stay away from dangers for an even better rebirth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To re-evaluate one\u2019s understanding on the true meaning and value of life itself !<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Be the\u00a0Master\u00a0of One\u2019s Own Destiny, and<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">To Save Oneself at the\u00a0Moment of Death!<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0If one can make good use of all the resources in this very lifetime, including: one\u2019s own wealth, knowledge, abilities, time, longevity and health, so that one can have a more in-depth understanding of one\u2019s post-death life, of \u201chow to <a href=\"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/?page_id=192\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}