What is the answer?
Let's see how nan huaijin, a great master, explains it.
First, let's look at the process of death.
We often say, to be healthy, we should pay attention to moving our legs. A newborn baby, lying on the bed, is mainly active in two legs, while his hand is clenched and his thumb is held in his fist, which is motionless. Legs like to move, indicating that they are full of vitality.
When the child is one year old, the halogen door overhead is still beating and can't talk. The sixth layer means that you are not fully grown up and your heart is not big. When the halogen door is completely full and you start talking, the awareness of separation will begin to work.
Children like to move their legs best. When they grow up, they like to run around. When they are seven or eight years old, they will go up and kick the dogs on the roadside. This is because their legs are moving. In primary and secondary schools, I like sports and playing basketball. Middle-aged people, like us, sit in the office and like to cross their legs. Therefore, whether a person is healthy depends first on whether his legs are flexible, and then he knows his physical condition.
So people's aging and death all start from the soles of their feet.
Old people say that "cold comes from the soles of the feet." If the soles of your feet are still hot in winter, you will probably live longer. In the early years, women tied up their trouser legs and had fewer gynecological diseases; Nowadays, people in society love beauty, wear skirts, shorts and so on, and gynecological diseases have also increased. Cold comes from the soles of feet, and essence also comes from the soles of feet. So it is very important to protect your legs and feet from getting sick.
Speaking of human death, in fact, people are dying at any time every day, not just one month a year, but every hour, every moment and every second. Zhuangzi said "born to die, born to die", which means that when we are born, it is the beginning of death, that is, life is death, we are living at any time and dying at any time. "Being immortal and never tired" is exactly Zhuangzi's conclusion on the value of life and its value. Others live to 100 years old, and I live to 90 years old. Seemingly alive, it is actually "waiting for death", just waiting for death.
On the first day you were born, you began to die. Life and death are relative. Where there is life, there must be death, just early death and late death. A person can't be young forever, and can't be as healthy as a young person forever.
When people die, there are four major changes. First, the earth has changed. The earth of human body is bones and muscles. When the body is out of control, it is difficult to turn over, which is to die first.
Step two, disperse the water. It's really going to die. The pupils of both eyes are dilated. Although you stand in front of it, he looks at you from a distance like a shadow. When you speak loudly, he only feels like a mosquito. I broke out in a cold sweat ... it's a huge water dispersion. When this phenomenon came out, it was almost hopeless. When it comes to real death, the anus opens and the body defecates and ejaculates uncontrollably, which is a very short-lived sexual pleasure. On the other hand, it is difficult to breathe.
After the death of Shuida, the wind dispersed greatly, and even the qi disappeared immediately, and he could not speak or breathe. Now hospitals often intubate patients at this time, draw sputum, draw sputum and breathe step by step. If they can't get up, they will die.
How do people feel when the land is so big, the water is so big and the wind is so scattered? This is what people look like after death.
When people are dying, they feel that their bodies are pinned down and cannot move. This is the beginning of mass death. The dying person feels like a dream, feeling that he is going to a very dark place, very dark, or with a faint light, feeling like he is pinned down by something. This kind of pain is worse than the pressure of dreams, as bad as two mountains crashing together. When the water dispersed, people's consciousness dispersed, like entering a dream, like falling into the water, falling into the ocean ... The wind dispersed, and the gas reached the throat, in a daze. This realm felt that the typhoon blew itself very cold until death. The death of the wind comes up step by step, and at the same time it is connected with the dispersion of the fire. The body temperature is lost step by step with the dispersion of the wind, and the body becomes cold step by step. My last breath is gone, and my whole body is cold.
The Beginning and End of Life by Nan Huai Jin tells the whole process of human death. Life and death, the process of everyone's graduation, is also the starting point and end point of every life journey.
A few days ago, my cat left me forever, and even its death process was exactly the same as the death story above.
At first, the cat was incontinent and stained the floor mat of the room, which was the beginning of the great death;
Then, the body twitched out of control, the pupils dilated and struggled, and the urine and urine were still incontinent and could not be excreted. This should be the process of water dispersion;
Then, I saw him breathing hard, his swollen stomach struggling and foaming at the mouth. No matter how he called his name, he got no response. This is a large-scale wind diffusion.
Soon, the cat gave up the ghost and passed away. At the same time, the body has already hardened, and the outstretched front legs can't move in the painful struggle.
Therefore, not only people, but all life is the same when it comes to the end and experiences death.