Organ Donation for Amituofo Chanting

This is my personal decision. I encourage others to do the same, because an organ donor can save 8 people and make 100 people happy. This statistic is not mine, I learned this from my End of Life Care course that I completed recently.

Organ donations are not scary. Being a student of Amitabha, I should not have anymore attachments to this body, and in fact, I should even think about how to benefit others instead of thinking solely about myself.

Talk about this, organ donations. In the past, our Sakyamuni Buddha donated his own body to a hungry tigress, we learn about that in the Dhamma stories. There are still many instances like that. In our modern world, however, there seldom is such instances. In fact, He did so out of wisdom, He knew that the recipient will benefit from it. I am not wise like Him, I do not know whether the recipient will benefit from it or not.

But anyway, being an organ donor gives me the responsibilities of taking good care of this body so that it will benefit the next user. Giving up this body entirely also has its benefits, because if I am still attached to it, I cannot go to Western Pureland. In fact, I find that now I MUST go to Western Pureland because I have no other choice. I have no "body" to rely on.

In our Buddhist practice, it is said that a person's body should not be touched or moved for 8 to 12 hours because there is still the attachment of the spirit to the body. However, this does not happen to those who go to Western Pureland, as those who migrates to Pureland is never dead. The body stays soft and warm, and not become cold and hard. Being an organ donor means that the organs shall need to be removed immediately after my spirit leaves the body so that the next 8 recipients of the different parts will benefit from it. If I do not go to Pureland, I will in anguish as they remove my organs as my spirit stands there helplessly looking at the process. So, I only have the option of migration to Western Pureland, and it is up to them to do whatever they want to the body.

This is the ultimate for me when it comes to my practice of giving up this physical body. By giving up, I still need to take care of it, not abandon it. This body has now become an object that I borrowed, not an object that I owe (this ownership is the misconception of many beings which constituted to the failure of deliverance), so I take good care of it now for the future recipients of this object.

Hence, I do not drink, smoke or take any form of intoxicants. There shall also be the practice of healthy diet and healthy lifestyle, so that the next user will have the organs at excellent condition. So, even if I leave this world to Western Pureland since nobody else will benefit from the Dhamma that I try to share, I still can contribute the last of me through these organs that I am using now.

If you wish to become a donor as well, go to www.dermaorgan.gov.my for online registration. In Penang, the registration can be done at the Pusat Sumber Transplan in the General Hospital, but they are only open during office hours. So, they gave me the website link for online registration.

I only registered today. So, I shall share with you how the organ donor card looks like in my next blog post in 3 weeks time when they send the card over to me.