Hey Eternal Now
Great to know that you have a big heart in desiring to donate
your organ.
I think Confucius once said, "How can one know about death
before he knows clearly about life?" In one's lifetime, one should
fulfill one's responsibility in realizing the ideal of a harmonious
society.
Hence, whether at the last moment of your life you will donate
the organ willingly. I don't think anyone can know except yourself.
Perhaps by reviewing one current daily life one
can predict your future organ reaction.
1) When your mum or close one enter your room to tidy the
place. Are you happy and thankful about it or you react
with.......?
2) When you lose your Iphone or personal belonging after
much search with no possiblility of recovery. Do you react
negatively over it with the blaming attitdue or accept it without
reservation?
These two is a simple questions perhaps you can reflect with
more question on your own. However, if one can honestly say that
most of the time, one react with negatively then I think one is not
prepare for the donation act. Why? If one is unable
to deal with the external material things which one own
how can he deal with people removing organ from one body which
one has acustom to since birth. With shame, I would said I
will react to No 2 that's why I did not opt for the
donation.
Perhaps your taiwan master was right in saying that it
might be a painful process for oneself especially if
the person still has a lot of attachement to the
body.
Yesterday, I was watching the program on Otko channel, Werid or
What. Inside this program, they presented a case of heart
transplant from a hollywood stuntsman who die in an
accident to a businessman. Interestingly, the businessman began to
pick up the stuntsman eating habit, sport activity, music
preference and etc. It is as if part of the stuntman is still
living in him. According to a Arizona University
professor whom they interview, he believe memory is not
only locate in the brain but in the organ, muscle and individual
cell. Well perhaps this is what we call in the buddhist circle
attachment...
Lastly, I heard a story of Shariputra whom during his earthly
life wanted to culitvate the Bodhisattva way. When
he came across a person crying by the roadside who was
seeking for help, he decided to help him at all cost. So the person
request for his eye when he gouge out his right eye. The
person request for the left since he wanted left instead
of right. Shariputra was so discourage that he said, " The
Bodhisattva way is too difficult to practice, I better be a
bhikshu."
In conclusion, is a good to have a bodhisattva heart but one
need to see if one capacity is there. Whatever choice you made I
wish well and happiness.
Gassho
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
Good post... it is precisely because I am aware that aversion
still arises in me that I have chosen to opt out for now.