Birth and Death

	 Being born as human ,one may not want to die.But nobody can escape from the 
death whoever may be: rich,poor.All come into the way of death.Whenever the death comes,
all become nothing,empty and useless.Nobody can carry the thing with.Every thing will 
be left here on earth.Nobody wants to die.What can we do than? To understand the 
characteristic of death,let we see the following sotry.

Death Medicine
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	Looking back to the time of The Buddha,there was the story about the woman 
who seeked the medicine for the her died son as the following:
	Kisagotami was born into a very poor family,and had the reputation of being frail 
and tiring easily.When she was old enough to be married she went to live with her husband's 
family.Because she had come from a poor home , they treated her without much respect until 
she gave birth to a son.Their attitude was quuite different, and she was treated  with both 
kindness and honour.Her situation was now a happy one, but this did not last for long. 
	Kisagotami  has a son who was old enought to run about and play  and become ill and
died.Kisagotami was desolate.She had not only lost the child she loved,but also her respected 
position in her home.In her grif,she picked up the body  of her child and wandered
from one house to another,asking for medicince for her son.The people who met her laughed
and sneedred.
	" Whoever heard of medicine for the dead?" they said
	By now Kisagotami was almost driven out of her mind by her sorrow.A wise man
saw her wandering about and realised how much she needed help.He had heard some of the 
teaching of Gotama Buddha, and  thought that he might be able to help her come to terms with her frief.
	He approached Kisagotami gently
	" The Buddha was staying nearby here."he told her "Why don't you go to see Him? 
He might have medicine for your son"
	" Really? "she asked surprisingly
	" Yes " he noded" Go to ask Him"

Medicine Material
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	Kisagotami wento find the Buddha and stood on  the edge of the crowd,listening
to him.When she had teh chance,she called out to him
	" O,Exalted One,give me medicine for  my son"
	Part of teh Buddha's greatness lay in his skill in knowing how to help other people
He told her kindly to go to the city nearby and visit every house.
	" Bring me some grains of mustard seed from every household in which no-one has 
every died."

Collecting grain of mustard
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	Kisagotami was delighted. Here was someone who tool her seriously. She went
to the city,knocked on the first house and asked for some grains of mustard seed from householder.
	" Can you give me grains of mustard?" she ased
	" Oh... Yesm,we have a lot of them" 
	"Thank you"
	" Here you are" the householder gave her grains of mustard seed.
	" Is there anyone died in this house?" she asked.
	"Sorry,madam,I  have already lost my wife" he said.
	"Sorry to here that" she said with her sympathy for his sadness  and understanding  
his grief from her own.
	She eventually moved on, but found tha in every house there was a storyu of 
sickness,
old age and death.Her own grief seemed different now that she shared that of others,and 
she realised that the Buddha had known when he sent her out that she would find that her 
predicament was the common to all that lives.She now took the body of her dear little son 
to the cremation ground and let it be cremated,fully realising that all is impermanent.
	Kisagotami then returned to Gotama Buddha.He asked her whether she had brought 
him the grains of mustard seed.She told him what had happened,and what she had realised.
She then asked him to accept her as his follower and to teach her more about the nature or reality 
and the path to understanding.

Ordained as Bhikkhuni
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	 After ordaining as Bhkkhuni,one day she came back from going far collecting 
alms and arrived Andhavan forest in Savathi sitting for the rest.Mara came to ask her 
	" You who had the died son,sitting lonely,seeming to be crying,be lone in the forest,do you find a man?"
	" I  whose son died,the death of my son is the end,men who have a died son 
are the end too.do not have any grief,not cry and not fear of death.Oh..Mara all of entertainment 
have been eradicated,the dark has been destroyed.I won the follower the king of death,no 
intoxicants of passion amd lived."
	She attained Arahant and ended of suffering.