Craving and Desire Leads to Rebirth

I'm very happy that my ex-colleague shared with me this video of Ajahn Suchart Abhijato Dhamma to laypeople from Singapore. I finally have a better understanding of Buddha's teaching on samsara and the Heart Sutra Its like connecting the dots of what I read from Mahayana sutra like the Heart sutra. Ajahn Suchart explained how craving and desires leads endless rebirth as the mind search for body to satisfy its craving and desires to make the mind happy.

Buddha" Craving, with you I've been born again and again. But now you're reviewed and your power redundant. 

It is the nature of all conditioned to arise, persist for a while and then pass away. Investigate the impermanence of all conditioned phenomenon. For the tears of beings wandering through the samsara are beyond measure. One who is still attached to form, sound, taste, smell and physical sensation cannot find liberation from this world."

By Ajahn Suchart

" To see the danger in your cravings and your desires that if you follow your craving and desire, you will always have to crave and desire and it will never end.

When your body dies, you will go and look for a new body to continue on with your craving and your desires. That's why you have ceaseless birth, rebirth. You are reborn and then you get old, get sick and die. And when you die, you go seek a new body so then you can use the new body to satisfy your craving and your desire which is never satisfied, no matter how many craving or desires you have. Its better not to desire everytime you crave for something. Just resist it, don't do it. Then your desire, your craving will disappear. And if you can do this with all your craving and desire, eventually there will be no craving left in your mind, then your mind will be fully satisfied, fully contented.

You can control your mind, you can make them always happy without having to rely on other things or the body once you no longer need the body. Then whatever happen in the body will not hurt the mind but if you still rely on the body to make it happy then when something happen to your body, you can be hurt.

The delusion that cause the mind to think that in order to be happy, you have to see, you have to hear, your have to feel, to touch to go to places, to have this and have that. This is all delusional because you will never satisfy your mind, no matter how much you see, how much you hear, how much you hear or get, they are temporary, they come and go after you have achieve it, it left you empty.

The only way to be satisfied is to resist your craving, your desire when there is no craving, there is no desire then your mind will be contented so this is the practise of samatha."

I agree on this for every time I satisfy my craving like trying delicious food or buying new stationeries, after buying it, I feel empty and want to buy more. Now I tell myself to resist it.

From the Heart Sutra

"HE PERCEIVED THAT ALL FIVE SKANDHAS ARE EMPTY"

During his practice of contemplation and illumination the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara attained Truth. By means of his minutely subtle Dharma practice he penetrated the five skandhas, perceiving them as empty.
The five skandhas, namely form, feelings, perceptions, volitions and consciousness continually provide five occasions for craving and clinging. Two types of craving and clinging characterize the human mind: 1) Craving and clinging to form and 2) Craving and clinging to mind. Clinging to form is the domain of the form skandha; the remaining four skandhas constitute the domain of the mind and the clinging to mind is generated in those four realms. All our grasping, manifested in our attachments and aversions, is generated and developed due to the activity of these four skandhas. Craving and clinging emerge at birth, and the Buddhadharma aims to sever them.