What would you do when you know you are going to die in a week?

Answer 1

Well versed in the Buddha way,
I go the non-Way
Without abandoning my
Ordinary person’s affairs.

The conditioned and
Name-and-form,
All are flowers in the sky.

Nameless and formless,
I leave birth-and-death.
Layman P’ang (740-808)

When mortals are alive, they worry about death.
When they're full, they worry about hunger.
Theirs is the Great Uncertainty.

But sages don't consider the past.
And they don't worry about the future.
Nor do they cling to the present.
And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
Bodhidharma


The monkey is reaching
For the moon in the water.
Until death overtakes him
He'll never give up.
If he'd let go the branch and
Disappear in the deep pool,
The whole world would shine
With dazzling pureness.
Hakuin

1. Experience Chan! It's not mysterious.
As I see it, it boils down to cause and effect.
Outside the mind there is no Dharma
So how can anybody speak of a heaven beyond?

2. Experience Chan! It's not a field of learning.
Learning adds things that can be researched and discussed.
The feel of impressions can't be communicated.
Enlightenment is the only medium of transmission.

3. Experience Chan! It's not a lot of questions.
Too many questions is the Chan disease.
The best way is just to observe the noise of the world.
The answer to your questions?
Ask your own heart.

4. Experience Chan! It's not the teachings of disciples.
Such speakers are guests from outside the gate.
The Chan which you are hankering to speak about
Only talks about turtles turning into fish.

5. Experience Chan! It can't be described.
When you describe it you miss the point.
When you discover that your proofs are without substance
You'll realize that words are nothing but dust.

6. Experience Chan! It's experiencing your own nature!
Going with the flow everywhere and always.
When you don't fake it and waste time trying to rub and polish it,
Your Original Self will always shine through brighter than bright.

7. Experience Chan! It's like harvesting treasures.
But donate them to others.
You won't need them.
Suddenly everything will appear before you,
Altogether complete and altogether done.

8. Experience Chan! Become a follower who when accepted
Learns how to give up his life and his death.
Grasping this carefully he comes to see clearly.
And then he laughs till he topples the Cold Mountain ascetics.

9. Experience Chan! It'll require great skepticism;
But great skepticism blocks those detours on the road.
Jump off the lofty peaks of mystery.
Turn your heaven and earth inside out.

10. Experience Chan! Ignore that superstitious nonsense
That makes some claim that they've attained Chan.
Foolish beliefs are those of the not-yet-awakened.
And they're the ones who most need the experience of Chan!

11. Experience Chan! There's neither distance nor intimacy.
Observation is like a family treasure.
Whether with eyes, ears, body, nose, or tongue -
It's hard to say which is the most amazing to use.

12. Experience Chan! There's no class distinction.
The one who bows and the one who is bowed to are a Buddha unit.
The yoke and its lash are tied to each other.
Isn't this our first principle... the one we should most observe?

Master Xu Yun

Answer 2

Don't worry! When you born, that time itself your death was decided. So it is not new to know it!
You have to see the history of many brave men died for a simple reason for nothing!
Only thing you can do is you finish your important duties and forgive your enemies, do apologise for your past mistakes and do help others as much as possible mentally, physically and financially. Add the credit to your life by doing good things within short period. Finally, after your death, even your enemy should be proud of saying that "I lost a good man and friend"
When you die, your mind should be with full of credit that you have done something good for the society. So, you won't feel the pain of death!!
Again, it easy to advise others and following is difficult.
God bless the people who are all facing such situation.
Cheers
Raj R

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Hmmn! it's so difficult to imagine what I'll do.I think If know it for sure, then my approach to the situation would be totally different from what I write now. Probably, do all that others have already said they will do.I loved rajendra's and ebungle's answer. :-) but i don't think I'd wanted to leave the world with loans pending on either my or my family's head. (wouldn't want to carry all that karma to my next life). Actually since you asked the question, I wonder what your answer would have been? I'm really tempted to know that. You should have given your 'plan for the week' too. ;-)

Answer 5

Nice question!

well, this is the time when you can be at your best! do what ever you like to do, and chances of success becomes twice or thrice at this point of time! so, this is the best time to become famous also! you know why, because, you will not have any other fear; and, probably that's the reason of success for lot of persons in this world; whenever you are in a tough situation, think like you are going to die---and see the difference, you will not fear of other things! Mind my word, you try this, and you will definitely succeed...

Somu

Answer 6

First no one knows when he or she going to die if we know this that's mean that every one going to stay at home waiting this time to come and doing nothing in his life, so we must be happy that we don't know when we going to die .

Answer 7

Quit job, take my wife and boy out for a weeks vacation.

Would like to walk around London once more before I go, maybe take them to Venice for a day. Then show my family the Grand Canyon, and then fly to Waikiki and sleep on the beach.

Answer 8

First I will clear all my dues.I will try to secure the future of all my dependeds,as they will be the most sufferers in my absence. I will apologies to all towhom I might had used hard words or knowingly or unknowingly I might had hurted their feelings.Ialsowill try to do something good to the needyones, whom I don't know.I will utilise the days left, in making jokes and laughing to keep others happy. I will definitely, not like people to cry after my end.

Answer 9

1. Express my love/good feeling to all my family memebers & friends.
2. To apologize for all bad things I may done without intention to anyone I can think of.
3. Spend every single minute with my family with happiness.
4. Distribute all my personal belongings to appropriate person (my family members, friends or charity organization)
5. To donate my body to the hospital for anyone if any parts of my body may be useful for them.
6. Praying for peace life everyday, together with doing only good things.

Anyway, just do the good things to make me & people surrounding me happy as much as possible.

Answer 10

i will definitely going 2 njoy last few day of life as there will nothing 2 loose then. masti, adda, full of fun. i'm a foodie. so i'll taste various food. and as an atheist, I will tell my family to do not arrange any funeral ceremony. and another thing, for this last week i will only wear my beloved Man Utd jersey bcoz i will support Man Utd till death.