I am layman Buddhist/pagan.
The summary is based on what I perceive is 'important' in the book.
If there is contradiction of meaning convey, the book prevails.
There are times I might questioning parts of the points inside the book doesn't mean I don't believe it. I need enlightenment on the doubts that I raise.
SECOND VISIT TO THE CITADEL OF PREMATURE DEATH
Visiting citadel of death at east as both Tse Kong and Yang Sheng possess Four Virtues of Buddhism.
In each of these two rooms separated by a partition, young people of both sexes packed together. They have dishevelled hair, and their looks are deplorable.
These young people, when in life, loved each other passionately. But something negative happened to them. They were deeply affected, they mourned their lost love. Then they took their lives. Thus, their souls are brought here.
In that far jail, there are many people with mutilated arms and legs, cracked heads, and their bodies covered with blood. Their wails, groans and cries are heart-breaking.
They are the victims of traffic accidents in the world. Since they have not yet come to the age determined by their destinies, they rank in the category of premature death. Their souls, when arriving in hell, are temporarily detained here, until they attain the limit of their longevity. Then their souls will sent to the Tribunals for trial.
Is this fair? The person is victim of accident, his/her soul suffered and been sent here for detention somemore.
It’s not necessary that every person killed in a traffic accident come here. Those people who have attained their predestined age and are killed in an accident because of the karma of their previous life, don’t come here. They should know that their conduct in the former life affects only seven tenths of their present destiny, while the other three tenths is influenced by their moral conduct in this life. This axiom is justified: “Destiny is hard to modify, but luck may deter its course”.
Poignant screams
They are the victims of assassination or of mutual slaughter.
Why sent here? They die due to karma anyway.
Another category of men who in this life refuse squarely to improve morally, or to acquire new virtues. They are the root of every quarrel and disorder that impairs the celestial cause. It is because of them that the motives for premature death are created. “One should get rid of a vendetta rather than nurture it”. If someone owes you money but he cannot repay it, when you don’t force the payment, you will benefit infinite grace from God. If in the human world one doesn’t nurture in one’s heart a selfish craving but lives fraternally with all fellowmen, just as heaven and earth don’t protect any particular individual, hell will exist no longer. The theory of causality will fall into disuse.
If a man inconsiderately loves every flower (implying the fair sex), telling himself that a given flower owed him a debt of love in her former life, and that in this life he is entitled to claim his due, he commits a heavy error. His actions are in no way justified by the principle of causality, nor are they included in the law of retaliation and account settlement. The cause created by his former life can only be justified when his encounter with the girl is sudden and spontaneous.
Wrong to assume the persons with angelic and buddhistic essence are the only ones to attain enlightenment and reach nirvana. More erroneous are the idle remarks of those men who pretend to be exempt from any type of work, once they own a fortune worth tens of thousands of dollars.
In the beginning, the souls are good and saintly but through process of transmigration of souls, become involved in earthly sins. That is why present day human beings cannot return to original state of their souls. Humans should do good with expectation to be reborn into better life, otherwise they undergo 6 stages of transmigration of souls. Saints and ghosts are product of human being's thinking, not destined by heaven.
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