The key to whether sentient beings in samsara will have a smooth or happy life in the next life depends on whether they are adequately prepared in this life. Adequate preparation means accumulating a great deal of material in this lifetime, which is sufficient good karma. Isn't that true of the Dharma and the Dharma of the world? Just like moving in the world, when you have made sufficient preparations, have the wealth, ability, and physical strength, there is no fear at all, and there is no need to worry, because everything is ready to make the next home better. But if we don't have enough preparation in advance and we have to move, we must be very scared, worried about where we can move without money, and worry about how we will survive if we move to a shabby place where we can't find a job and have no money.

Personally, when the moment of one's death comes, you must be mentally prepared, and you must first have enough confidence in the cycle of cause and effect. If we don't cognitively understand that "passing away is the beginning of rebirth," we will have a strong attachment to this life, to our belongings, to our relatives and friends, to the land we live in, and so on, and this will bring us painful struggles. Because you don't want to lose, but you don't have the ability to keep it; I don't want to leave, but I can't afford to stay. The famous Sakya Pandita Wise Man in ancient Tibet once said, "Death does not care whether people's work is done or not, so before he comes, you must be well prepared to face everything you have." "Because when death does come, you can't tell him that because your business is not over, ask him to postpone the coming moment. Therefore, when we pass away, we should be prepared to be calm and calm. For everything that happened in the past, including your most beloved relatives and friends, wealth and status, since you can't take it away when you are dying, there is no need to cling. Your most cherished body, when others squinted at you before, you would think that others had scorned and bullied you, and at this moment when you must let go, there is no point in clinging. It's easy to say, but it's uneasy because of our fear of death and our long-held belief that this is the symbol of the end. But in the face of the facts, the truth of reincarnation is that there is life and death, and no one is an exception. Then we need to build up the awareness of death and the right attitude we should have, and know that this is not the end, but the beginning of the next life. When it comes to the beginning, everything we do in this life will be the cause of the ripening of the future results, so the accumulation of such good fortune and the necessity of cutting off evil and cultivating good should really not be underestimated.

The body cannot be taken away at death, and no one can carry the body to the next life, just as moving cannot bring the old house to the new home. It is the soul that is really leaving, and the only thing that can follow the soul away is all the causes that have been sown on the eighth consciousness called alayya. These "causes," whether good or evil, will eventually ripen upon us. For example, from childhood to adulthood, in the process of studying, the teacher imparts a lot of knowledge on the podium, we listen and learn below, but the teacher does not give us anything substantial, what we really get is the concept and thinking conveyed by the teacher on the podium, when these contents are integrated into our eighth consciousness, it becomes the seed of our learning. As we learn, we learn everything that the teacher knows, and the teacher doesn't lose anything, and we don't grow anything substantial, but what grows is the seed that is sown in the alayya.

It can be inferred from this that when a person is growing up when he is a child, if the family and society do not care enough for him, there may be a bad shadow on his soul. Perhaps through serious study and hard work, when he grows up, he has a high degree or a brilliant career, and presents a complete personality on the surface, but deep down there are still incomplete and unsound parts.

I know a well-known Ph.D. who holds a high-level and high-paying position in a company, from the chairman to the employees, and is recognized as a gentle, humble and responsible person. But when he returned home, he often spoke ill of his wife and children, and even used violence. His wife told others what she said, and no one believed him, because on the outside he was a good man, and even those who did not know him admired him. The reason for his immature personality is that he grew up in a single-parent family, and there are many children in the family, so he suffered a lot of discrimination and unfairness in the process of growing up, and his mother often raised her children by beating and scolding. In order to maintain a solemn image, he does not reveal his past and is more courteous than others, so everyone thinks that he is the best person; But at home, he would repeat the pattern of his mother beating him on his wife and children. He also knew that he was wrong and that he should change it, but he couldn't control his actions.

If such a defect is deeply imprinted on the consciousness of the alayya, it is really not easy to change it. In our thoughts of doing good, if there are evil miscellaneous thoughts that are integrated, then the accumulation of good thoughts containing impurities will cause the personality to mix good and evil, and hide it in the alayya consciousness, causing the personality to mature in the cross-cycle of good and evil, and sometimes think that it has good motives, and is doing good deeds, but in the wrong way, the actions taken will become bad deeds. In Buddhism, this is called "ignorance," because the afflictions that arise from ignorance bring about karma. Therefore, we can't despise some childhood habits, just like the saying goes, "stealing melons when you are young, stealing cows when you grow up", some small bad habits, if you despise them and don't correct them, they will be like dripping water through stones, and when you grow up, you will become a powerful karma and hurt others, of course, you will hurt yourself in the end.

Every sentient being is in the cycle of life after life, but the role is constantly changing, but the karma follows us and never leaves. We often use personality to describe the way a person behaves and does things, and this is a manifestation of karma. Its impact on people will be like the metaphor of "dominoes", many times, the words and deeds that follow the movement of the mind will be touched, so that they will be affected by the thoughts of the moment, and then the performance we give to the outside world will also get corresponding feedback. Actually, the manifestations of karma can be subtle or coarse, but whether karma brings us happiness or pain depends entirely on whether it is our good karma or our bad karma. Buddhism says that in fact, the real responsibility of our reincarnation in each life lies in karma.