..续本文上一页angle, my talk today is a little different to others. I am mainly coming from a Buddhist perspective to dissect and analyze life, to let everyone realize that happiness does not originate from the material. Without seeing clearly this truth of life, each day is crazy busy. What for

　　 In the end even oneself does not know.

　　Master Ji Gong once said: “Once impermanent, all matters cease, what”s the rush

　　” Indeed, we can consider: any person, when ceasing the final breath, of all the things that one has busily worked hard for in a lifetime, wealth, children, which can be taken along

　　 Thus, the things that many desperately chase after, and are particularly attached to, are in fact part of an illusive dream.

　　Perhaps some do not agree: “I eat, walk, buy a house, drive a car, these are all real and tangible, how can it be a dream

　　” To this, I have much evidence to show. In the Diamond Sutra it is said: “All conditioned Dharmas are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows, like dewdrops and a lightning flash: contemplate them thus”. On the surface anyone can cite this verse, but its deeper meanings have not been carefully examined or experienced by many. You have to know that all matters and all materials in this world, including our body, the food we eat, the houses we live in, the cars we drive, the roads we walk on, are all like dreams, like illusions, like bubbles, like solar flares. None of these have a tangible existence.

　　On this point, a few perhaps find it difficult to accept: “That can”t be! I chat with my friends, I put clothes on in the morning, these all actually happened, how can it be a dream

　　” But in fact, when we are dreaming we also have these scenes. “Having” does not necessarily mean being real.

　　Now, let us analyze this question in detail.

　　2. How to prove that life is like a dream

　　In many films and literary works, people often like to say: “Life is a dream”. Yet how is life like a dream

　　 They have not actually thought it through deeply.

　　The renowned Ancient Indian commentator Shantideva once said: “Just like a dream experience, whatever things I enjoy will become a memory. Whatever has passed will not be seen again”. Life is like an illusion. No matter what happens, once it has happened it entirely disappears and everything can only be a memory, just like a dream.

　　Everything in our past has no difference to yesterday”s dream. No matter what you encountered, whether failure or sucess, once it has happened it would not be reenacted. Is this not like a dream

　　 Take me as an example, I also came to Hong Kong a few months ago, but all of that has now become a memory, indeed not much different to having been to Hong Kong in a dream.

　　Master Han Shan said: “Last night I dreamt, all was empty, upon waking to tell the dream, I looked up again to see emptiness.” He said last night he had a dream; everything in the dream was empty. When he woke in the morning to speak of the dream, he looked up, and saw that all matters and all materials are also empty. Similarly, what I have said and did in the past appeared to be real, but in fact when I look up, it was but yesterday”s dream.

　　On this, everyone needs to understand. Otherwise, you are too attached to emotional connections and to life, yet at the end, for what

　　 Apart from enormous pain and suffering, there would not be anything else. Thus, we must realize the unreal side of life.

　　I am not sure if you have read Four Hundred Verses on the Middle Way

　　 It is by the commentator Aryadeva. The content is very good, and it said: “All Dharma are like wheels of fire, of changing illusory phenomena.” Commentator Nagarjuna in Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way also said: “It is all a dream, an illusion, like a city of gods floating in the heavens. So much for arising, enduring, and di…

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