It pop up on my Youtube yesterday and caught my eye. It was 2 hours + video, decided to shared the video with 2 groups of dharma friends in whatsapp and to found out it was not available this morning. It was very touching and I thought of sharing it with everyone based on my memories of what I have watched.
Am in tears while writing this as it reminds me of the pain, the process of from birth, sick and death. It also reminds me when I was 1 years old till 4 years old where we used to have several dogs and they are like companion,friends, families to me and my brother.It is painful when seeing your loves one leaving especially when you share your happiness with them everyday. Is a bond between humans and animals ( friends ).
Came to know about Mumu when a good friend of mine , Freon was mentioning that Mumu was very sick and needed a very urgent puja or prayers. That’s where we planned to accumulate 500k of Medicine Buddha Mantra having 100 people to participate on the mantra recitation and dedicate to Mumu. Mumu was not an extra ordinary dog. He actually bonded and reunite everyone from all over the world to do dharma for 11 days right before his last breath.
Recall from the Youtube, nothing beats from the look of his cute looking and innocent eyes glowing wide open smiling at you. From that moment, you felt that of well is so peaceful and nothing ever bothers you. At the initial stage, he was happy , cheerful, playful, and correspond to everyone and became extremely quiet, reserved, moody, painful. It was like a cycle of life- birth, sick ,death and rebirth.
From a very healthy little fellow, stages by stages his body degenerate. Hair drops, getting thinner and thinner, weaker and weaker, no appetite till the stage where he has been very reserved and needed support from needle for the drip to him because he can’t eat and he can barely walk around. Is like watching people that you know who diagnosis with cancer. Day after day, suffers from pain and does not even have energy , struggling to survive each day.
At times, he can walk and he was circulating the Buddha statue that was on the table with the guidance of food. The last few moments where he walks very slowly to the balcony laying on the cushion trying to get some sun. The feeling was as if it was the last moment that he can see the sun. Latter ,it was just sleep and sipping very little water, laying at his bed… eyes slowly open and close …. like patient that are hospitalize. Very quietly ,peacefully leaving the body.
It was quite touching and let us have a second thought that life is so fragile , short and suffering. We are still a live now and what have we been doing? We as human will have to go through the cycle of birth, sick and death. Have we DONE ENOUGH? We have so much karma… after death, good and bad karma follow us like shadows. We do not have time to just sit down there and do nothing. How many years more to go? 10? 20? 30? or just in few seconds?
dorjeshudgen 