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Chapter 6: The Thought of Suicide I was asked once, "Grand Master Lu, please tell us the truth, have you ever thought of committing suicide?" My answer was, " Yes! Let me tell you this: I attempted suicide when I was a sixth grader in elementary school." "Oh!" - the people were all very shocked. I revealed more, "My brother Lu Zhao Rong killed himself by drinking potassium hydroxide." Again, everyone was stunned when they heard this. According to an analysis by a famous psychologist, the percentage of people who have suicidal tendencies is definitely not small. Moreover, the number of people who have ever had suicidal thoughts is even greater. Fortunately, for most people, thoughts of killing themselves are immediately eradicated by reason. If this were not so, the human race would be nearly extinct from suicides. I recently wrote several articles admonishing people not to harbor suicidal thoughts and not to commit suicide. Since I possess spiritual connections I know that the souls of people who commit suicide experience much greater suffering than other souls. After a suicide, it's very hard for the soul to be delivered because it had violated the first of the Five Precepts - abstaining from killing - which results in very heavy negative karma. Even if these souls are able to cleanse all their karma and reincarnate as human beings, they either become handicapped with blindness, deafness, and/or muteness, or they become people with incomplete brains, hands, or legs -- these people live in immense pain. In general, most suicides do not gain any sympathy from the world. Instead, suicides only leave those who want to get rid of them rubbing their hands with glee. Therefore, what kind of benefit do they derive from suicide when it only hurts their family and delights their enemies? In my opinion, it's dying an unproductive death. So what happens when you reach a cul-de-sac in your life? My advice is to search for the happiness of the moment. Life's journey should be completed with pure joy. What do you do when you are humiliated, over-pressured or in great pain? The Buddha taught us Tolerance Paramita. After practicing tolerance, you can reach the other shore. Now I think that as long as you don't die, happiness and bliss will come eventually. If you die, not even hope remains. Therefore, it is wise not to commit suicide.
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