Suffering - The king of death

Buddhist simile : chicken and the king of death

Dear friends have you ever pay attention to a chicken. What do they do? Have you ever thought, all of us are like a chicken? Like a chicken who is fed by the owner.

If you pay your attention wisely you will understand all of us are similar to a chicken who is fed by its owner. That is we are fed by the king of death which direct us for rebirth and suffering

What does a chicken do?

Early in the morning a chicken wake up and go outside looking for food its owner has scatter. Chicken look for the foods for its baby chicks. In the evening it goes back to its coop to sleep. And then again the next day morning chicken will repeat the same until it has been slaughtered by its owner.

The chicken and the owner thinks in two different way

The owner scatter food for the chicken every day. He weigh the chicken and feel happy when the chicken has grown enough to supply with meat.

The chicken engross with the food provided by its master. When the master weigh the chicken it thinks the master is showing affection. Chicken do never see the danger of its master feeding it and the slaughtering.

Chicken, you and me

Like the chicken who engross in food, we all engrossed in sights, sounds, smell, tastes, tactile sensations, and ideas. We carry lot of bad Karma on these. We take these engrossments as our self and cling onto the cycle of rebirth and suffering.

King of death and suffering

Engrossed in sights, sounds, smell, tastes, tactile sensations, and ideas we have no sense enough that we are growing older. How many lives we will be born again, in which form weather in hell, as an animal in heaven or as a human being?

Until we end the craving for sights, sounds, smell, tastes, tactile sensations, and ideas we will do clinging. The clinging will lead to the existence of us in any form of life. With the existence we carry all form of suffering as suffering of birth, old age, illness, death, encountering what is unpleasant, separation from what is pleasant, not getting what you want and the suffering of five appropriate aggregates.

Therefore like the chicken we engross in the clinging until the king of death direct us towards the suffering similar to the chicken been slaughter by its owner.

Therefore the wise person will make an effort to end the craving there by cease the clinging and rebirth. Thus the wise will attain the ultimate happiness of nibbana.

………. May you have the wisdom to end suffering……………..