Inspirational Practice from My Master(2) [translation]
Mosquitoes question again?
Recently, it has been raining. i found the apartment I am
residing was visiting by a lot of mosquitoes for days, thus those evenings I
could smell the mosquitoes spray gas blowing through wind to my residence. I
looked at my own arms and legs - I have ‘donated’
some blood to them in 2-3days as the
mosquito repellent liquid plucked on the wall has used up more days ago. As a
Buddhist, it is difficult to justify intentional killing of insects as rational
people would say we need ‘wisdom’ since certain ‘species’ may be harmful to
human beings. Ask anyone around locally - who has not known of someone suffered
from ‘denggi fever’ or suspected of this infectious tropical disease?
About 2 months ago when my master Kunde Rinpoche was
preparing his dharma activities documents, slides, video at his office (also my
little living space), they were many mosquitoes for a few days. When I saw his 2 arms with many red bums of
mosquitoes bites, I felt sorry and did not know what to do. He consoled me it
was alright for him. Much later we noticed there were some mosquitoes died due
to ‘over sucked’ and the body too heavy to fly! Then I saw the Master picked
those ‘dead beings’ up, gazed with his silent prayer and put them away to avoid
my careless footsteps on them. He said to me in gentle and soft voice that it
is alright for him they were too full hence their body became too heavy to fly and
thus suffered! (我是没有什么的咯，但是它们吃太饱了很辛苦！) – I
felt more than touched, very move by his compassion. In a strange way, my fear
towards this sentient beings dissipated….. -
since then, I felt it is not enough to just do my Buddhist chanting
occasionally, transfer merits to all sentient beings… even under unforeseen
circumstances, it is not easy to co-exist with such living beings irrespective
of big or small?
Tashi delek
When we can repel the insects, rather than having to kill them, we do no injury to their brief life, and save our own health. here is a link to some natural mosquito repellant: http://chemistry.about.com/cs/howthingswork/a/aa050503a.htm
ReplyDeleteWho needs the distraction and discomfort? Also, insects can transfer disease, so it is best to avoid giving them a chance, even if only for the sake of others you may infect.
Good luck with your practice!
Thanks for kind thoughts and sharing of information. i did facilating with the repellant, it works for a while only... the surrounding environment of ground floor neighbour apartment's bushes may have breeding ground...
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