Josef wrote: ↑Mon Jun 25, 2018 6:10 pm
Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Mon Jun 25, 2018 4:38 am
Q: Is it a good idea for Buddhists to donate their organs after death?
A: Donating organs after death is not as good as donating them while you're still alive—then it's for real! If you don't donate them until you're dead and can't use them anymore, what's the use? As it's said, "Don't give to others what you yourself don't want."
-Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
It's a good idea for buddhists to donate their organs BEFORE death.
Giving up the three roots of clinging; ones body, possessions, and roots of virtue is the ultimate chod practice.
No drums, phets, or bone trumpets required.
Just bodhicitta.
Josef beat me to it. In Chöd you're training your consciousness to eject and then to offer the body to thw buddhas and sentient beings. Having mentally prepared in such a way, it's easy to see how organ donation would be a natural thing for an authentic Chödpa operating in the West. And since Chöd can be seen as both Guru Yoga and Mandala Offering, so to could you view donating one's body parts.
As Garchen Rinpoche says, "May all beings have happiness and the single cause of happiness, which is love. May they be liberated from suffering and the single cause of suffering, which is self-grasping."
If anyone is interested in Chöd after reading these comments by Josef and me, please let me know. I'm currently watching some YouTube teachings given by Lamchen Gyalpo Rinpoche in 2016, and they're absolutely mindblowing!
"The Sutras, Tantras, and Philosophical Scriptures are great in number. However life is short, and intelligence is limited, so it's hard to cover them completely. You may know a lot, but if you don't put it into practice, it's like dying of thirst on the shore of a great lake. Likewise, a common corpse is found in the bed of a great scholar." ~ Karma Chagme
དྲིན་ཆེན་རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ་སྐྱབས་རྗེ་མགར་ཆེན་ཁྲི་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཁྱེད་མཁྱེན་ནོ།།
རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་མཁས་གྲུབ་ཀརྨ་ཆགས་མེད་མཁྱེན་ནོ། ཀརྨ་པ་མཁྱེན་ནོཿ