WHY A DEATH  . VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

The cause  of  samsara  is clearly stated in the  Twelve Causes and Conditions , belonging  to the basic teachings  of  Buddhism . In  these twelve conditions  , the  root cause  is  ignorance , from which the  main cause  of birth is being ( the tenth cause ), that is, the  existence  of the  three realms :  sensuality ,  gender  and  formlessness. gender ; and the  main cause  of death is birth. Samsara  is the eleventh and twelfth of the  Twelve Causes and Conditions, which in the beginning is  ignorance . From  the ignorance of the  arising, the arising of consciousness, the arising of materiality ...  to  birth and death. In short,  samsara  is due to  ignorance  of mind and  activities  of that ignorant mind   .

The world  with countless differences  that limit  each other,  conflict  ,  arise  and destroy each other, that is what  we  call  samsara . Birth and death  occur  due to  ignorance  discrimination , which it says in most of the  verse :

Themselves as male
Seeing the other was a woman
Do mind the  distinction  is
which being pleased  craving
indulgence  wealth owned
Tam Minister  majeure prime
Because expectations distinction ...
(Male Minister triangle-soot)

Order of collective  nature  difference
Start up now these
Nghiep nor birth
All not true ...
(Long Minister triangle-soot)

Kia  by place  name itself
According to  secular  security establishment
in that no legal
which hope departure  distinction .
(Ma-ma-la tam-muoi)

In which the author is not 
Free distinguished  birth
Now we sit  ashrams
Know Minister  unborn  This
Because  formless ,  unborn
nature was like  nowhere
Generals are that the first President ...
( Hell  Minister triangle-soot)

But  distinguish  by where born? A  basic distinction   is a  distinction  between me and my differences, between mine and those of others. The  original distinction  was a  distinction  between me and the non-me. That  distinction  is due  to  the false creation of a false self as  opposed  to another and to  the world . In  reality,  "there is no dhamma that discriminates". 

In  reality  there is no body " but take the body as the body ". In  reality  ineffective  that take " measures  ineffective  as effects" . Everything you  do, clinging,  greed , anger,  hope  and fear ... are  work  with  nothingness ,  in vain .

Conscientious  in  ignorance
Hopeless  birth, thought delusion
In  before  birth before birth
As a knot of  nowhere .
Strange for the fools
It is not worth doing
The Dhamma is not
due to discrimination caused by  birth.
Like wanting to grasp  nothingness.
Keeping in one place
Even though thousands of  lives can
not  accumulate  .
Fools from  this ancient
Through  countless  lives
Vong launch knotted si
As no  little part to increase.
Like the one who holds  nowhere
There is no increase or decrease
Gathering si many lives
No increase or decrease, too ...
( Ignorance  general tam-muoi)

What causes in the place where there is no (previous) clinging arises? What does it want to tie the knot of  nothingness , wanting to hold onto, and accumulate  nothingness  without knowing that  nothingness has not  increased or decreased?

It is the  ego  delusion ; the  ego  is the knot  of nowhere . According to the eight consciousness, the  self  -grasping consciousness is the Māna-consciousness, with  its powers  being  self-understanding ,  self-love ,  self-delusion ,  self-conceit . The attachment of  self, immediately  distinguishes  between me and not me, me and others, me and  the world . There is an ego, that is the  original  and  fundamental distinction  ; it is ignorance ( ignorance ).

Waking  ego  this Saturday  the commander , ruler sixth form is  conscious  and in informal  senses . Thought  is I  thinking , for me and for me. The eye sees, the ear hears I see I hear for me and for me.  This ego - clinging End-consciousness  also  contaminates the  basic  consciousness, the eighth Arahant consciousness with   my notions and mine.

The  false self  has  divided  the world  into me and the non-me. That  distinction , division gradually spreads and permeates  all  eight consciousness to  divide  reality  into fragments that  we  call  samsara . Waking  ego  has  torn  reality  of  birth and death . Said  tearing  just a way of saying, because  reality  emptiness  can not be undermined, as Bat-elegant  Heart Sutra  says, it is  "not born, not destroy, not increase, not decrease, not dirty, not clean". Or to put it  in Pali terms,  "the reality is Nirvana, that Nirvana does not expand when there are few people in, not narrow when there are many people in".

The two largest lines of  Mahayana  is  Madhyamaka  or  Middle Way  of His  Nagarjuna  and  consciousness-only  his  Vasubandhu  say the first and  last  of  Buddhism  is  selfless  and  outlawry .

The basis of  Buddhism  is  selflessness  and  lawlessness . Route  or  method  of  Buddhism  is going in  selflessness  and  outlawry  to  perform  are  selfless  outlawry . And fruit is  selfless  outlawry . To  perform  selfless  outlawry ,  Buddhism  has many  disciplines , such as the third-soot of Minister of greed, hatred and delusion, Minister  kinds of  beings ... in  Sutra  Assembly Manjushri  Prussian subjects this. And here,  we  only talk about the consistency of economic measures to disperse the  delusions  and delusions have formed the realm  of birth and death .

Why must shop? Because  currently  the bars, the view of  us  is due to  discrimination , and the  consulate  see  distinguish  mistakes  that create  samsara  falsehoods . We  must reflect  back  to see  reality  as it is. Because of  discrimination  ,  we  observe the  self and the dharma has its  own nature , it is real. So  we have to  be righteous  again  to see that self and dhamma are  devoid of self nature ,  not real , like illusory , like dreams. So that  freed  from  delusion ,  liberation  from  samsara  because  we  falsehoods  created.

In the sutras often say the process of  practice  is Van, Tu, Tu. Literature is listening to lectures, reading, studying ... Literature makes  us  interested , want  to learn  broader and deeper. Next  is Thought,  thinking ,  thinking , critical,  applying  what you heard to life itself  , testing it to see if it is correct. When we see  the truth  as such, can not be wrong,  we can  have  faith  in the Dharma to  really practice . The third is  to practice , Tu, bring what they have learned, have reflected and have tried  to apply  to practice meditation ,  meditate . There are sutras, like the  Diamond Sutra , saying only four verses are enough for the whole process of Literature, Tu, and Tu. The point  is  we have  to  experience  it,  realize  it in this earthly life.

Through  meditation  meditation  oriented  given ,  plus  the  factors  other  dynamics  such  vows ,  do merit ,  effort , devotion ... the veil of  ego  law enforcement  to be  removed . Until  a moment those  veils are  lessened,  we  face , see emptiness directly  ,  although  only partially.

Then there is the certainty that by  experiencing the truth  that we are ,  we  remove until  the obscurations are  completely removed   . Seeing,  right view  of  emptiness ,  initially  only a part in  the life of us , then cover the whole body, mind,  world  and  beings . Perhaps, when the view of  emptiness  encompasses all  existence ,  we  will see all as  liberation , or ,   according to  the scriptures , all   birth and death  is Nirvana.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.10/9/2020.