Who does not die?

Human life has four important stages, that is: Birth, aging, illness and death. Some new born people die, some old and dead, some people suffer from chronic illness and then die and eventually death does not absolve anyone. From the king, the queen, the king, the president, the prime minister, the lower to the common people, cloth clothes sold without food, clothing ... all must die. So death is a sure thing, no one escaped 

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In the Bat Kinh Duong have said that: " finite birth, death any ", that is: "Birth time, death no one knows." This means that when we are born in this life, parents, doctors can predict what day we are born, because they are the masters of creating our lives; But death, no one can master it, and none of us, ordinary people, can know in advance what time we must go from this world. Thus Buddhism calls this life impermanent.

Human life has four important stages, that is: Birth, aging, illness and death. Some new born people die, some old and dead, some people suffer from chronic illness and then die and eventually death does not absolve anyone. From the king, the queen, the king, the president, the prime minister, the lower to the common people, cloth clothes sold without food, clothing ... all must die. So death is a sure thing, no one escaped, but asking more than 7 billion people to be born, grow up and dwell on this twenty-first century globe, that death and how many percent of people are aware of that impermanence, or are we still in vain to win the lottery? But what to do and the end of this life, everyone knows, but why worry, afflicted on so many people like that? This is a question that all of us have to answer ourselves. So we know the path of birth and death.

In the four stages of life, one experiences only one stage, that is, when born or not born is dead in the womb and also some who are not old and not sick, but also die . Someone lived to be one hundred years old, but not sick and eventually died. So birth is a premise and death is a conclusion, but how live in the 30 or 50 years of that life to make sense then one day we have to go, that is what's worth saying Each of us has a unique and separate business and industry, no one like anyone, even though they are twin or born at the same time three or four. Parents do not have the power to set their children's karma. Parents are only the cause for the birth of the fetus, Then in this life by the karmic conditions and karmas of past lives created by oneself and now it is the time that they must be or be affected from the endless number of lives. So we often say, "Parents give birth, but not heart" is so. That is the mind of every being. This body can be lost and transformed through many different forms, but that consciousness will always exist through many stages of karma transformation. When we do human body, the mind is human mind, when we make the gods, the mind is the upper realms, when we fall into hell, that mind will turn into the center of beings in hell .... As such, the path of birth and death never stops, until we can master life and death.

The kings, the president, the prime minister or the leaders of the nation, they are the ones who have created the generosity of generations, so in this life it is only the result of what they have created. We do not have much effort in this life, but the old debts of our past lives are not finalized, we must wait for another life to hope for a fuller life in the present. But in life, few people master themselves when they have the name and status. Many people are elected president, prime minister, etc ... think that you will always be in the high seat, so you should go to the greed, as much as the more you see, the more missing, not compensated. At the welding, folk, only dream enough to eat enough rice, dress. But when there is power in hand then no one is commenting, If not control the desire, the path to sin in front of the eyes, not far away. And then, no one expected, someday, when the imperialism or the democratic life of the people rise, the high seat, there is nothing else to expect. Whoever understands this, he will lighten the burden of mourning, who can not understand the cause and conditions and the law of cause and effect, he will suffer eternal life, not only in this life only.

Talking about the community of beings there are countless examples. If we are people who do not know each other, but will go on a trip across the river, across the sea or fake to be together in a car or plane, train ... no one to date, but someone stepped up, someone stepped down. At one point, the accident happened, somebody was rescued, some were injured, some were seriously injured, and many died. Indeed, all those who have departed, no one expects that to happen, but in the end, few of us will escape. So the Buddha called this is the community. That means that karma has been available for so long, now in the course of the finite journey, it is imperative that we take that karmic retribution. Of course, none of us wait and expect, But we still inevitably, because karma has come to maturity, the kernel and fruit have matured, so the new results happen. But karma will not end there, but the acts of artwork over the course of life are still going on as theatrical performances on the stage of life where the artists are continuing to play the drama like that. Well, bad, tragic, miserable because of love, the right to disappear and reappear, etc. ... all are only the illusory nature of the world where the human and the mind are the main character. The acts of artifacts in the past are still going on like stage plays on the stage where the performers continue to perform the plays. Well, bad, tragic, miserable because of love, the right to disappear and reappear, etc. ... all are only the illusory nature of the world where the human and the mind are the main character. The acts of artifacts in the past are still going on like stage plays on the stage where the performers continue to perform the plays. Well, bad, tragic, miserable because of love, the right to disappear and reappear, etc. ... all are only the illusory nature of the world where the human and the mind are the main character.

Look at the new politicians who have been engrossed in rhetoric on the political forum of the world someday, making somebody profoundly lauded for such brilliant talents. Some time later heard the news that he, the other man ... now is suffering from altzheimer disease remember before, forget later, even his place does not remember to return, then how can remember be the first, the next. So what is not changed by impermanence and how many people are aware of that impermanence. When we are young, we think of old age, sickness. Because we think that the old death it will come to others it has not come to me,

When the Buddha was in the world, he taught the human way of life and he also taught the cause of tuberculosis death, so that the layman as well as the renouncer learned the experience. , then practice to benefit yourself and benefit people while living as well as after death. In the book A Ham has recounted a story as follows:

One day, Ananda took a branch of flowers and white Buddha said:

"Dear Blessed One, I smell the aroma of this flower very fragrant, but even its branches and leaves are fragrant, the rings to its roots are fragrant too, no matter which flower its fragrance can. fly back to the wind or not? "

Yes! Be A Nan, "It is the layman who holds the circle of five precepts. These are home-grown practitioners who practice the eight precepts every six days on the eighth, the second, the fourteenth, the fifteenth, the thirty and the first. These are the laypeople who keep the ten good things of the body, the mouth and the mind. It is the aroma, oil upstream can also fly everywhere.

After all, if we read and think carefully as well as practice, then the value is unparalleled. This is virtue, this is the path leading to the realms of good and good. This is the journey of the people towards the direction of birth and death.

Sometimes, when his followers asked questions about various subjects and controversy, when he heard loud noise in some corner of the Vihara, he told them to gather together to He reckons the monks are present. Often he teaches in the A, Ham, and Ham functions as follows:

Does that thing have a form or not?

Lord Buddha, yes

Is it impermanent or not?

Lord Buddha, yes

What is so impermanent?

Out of suffering Lord Buddha.

Where does suffering come from?

Lord of the Sun, due to ignorance and infection that is.

How ignorance and where the infection from birth?

Lord, because of the birth.

Where did you come from?

Lord Buddha, from the ego, the hand that has.

What is the basis of self and self?

Lord Buddha, is not, is no formality.

So and so, he clarified all the activities and causes. The monk or layman who is able to contemplate the teachings then, to observe, practice will have immediate results.

One day a bhikkhu asked the Buddha,

Lord Buddha, fall and fall what is it?

If the hands touch each other, we will hear a sound, but watch closely the sound before it occurs and after the sound is no longer where it will go? It was like that. Because it is not real sound like that, but beings are real, so clinging to it and suffering, birth and death from that to. And what is your inheritance, but you test whether it is true?

For as a pile of wood, there is a fire to burn. It is clear that there is a firewood and there is fire, but when the wood is gone, the fire is gone, where is the fire going? Those who accept this is mine, this belongs to me as well. Actually there is no one that has the real general. So people are suffering and lead to tuberculosis.

In the Eighth Book of the Eightfold Sutra, the Buddha taught him the Ananda (Ananda), which means mindfulness of breath. This is the oldest of the Sutras and the Bhikkhus and Buddhists who still practice to this day on this globe, whether it be Nams or Mahayana, Mahayana or Vajrayana. this business do. The Buddha taught:

"When you breathe in, you know that you are inhaling, when you breathe out, you know that you are breathing out. When you breathe in you know that cold breath, when breathing out, you know warm breath. So you turn to look at impermanence, about dukkha and non-self as well.

So he practiced immediately. That day he did not eat, decided to memorize the Buddha's teachings, spent time to contemplate the breath, and finally he had liberated himself, freed from all the bonds of the world and came before the Buddha, At the foot of the Buddha and white that:

Dear Buddha, "The birth is over, the virtues have been set up, what needs to be done is done and I know for sure that the next life is not reborn again.

The Buddha praised Ananda's deeds and told the other bhikkhus that this was indeed a person who knew the path of birth and death.

Most Arahats attained the same result. They witnessed this result as money, not when they passed away. What is evidence? It is the root of the birth of TB, no longer being born again. The bearer of life shall bear the life and death, and the uncircumcised, the life of death shall be his master. The difference between saint and mortal is so. Only mortals accept the general and self, so new birth and death, and the Saints have clear way to go back, so Arahats, Bodhisattvas or Buddhas in the past, the present and the future are the ones who are not killed by it.

To conclude this article, I would like to say right away: If you have the opportunity to read the Pali Canon or translated into Han Chinese or Vietnamese or Japanese, etc., the conclusion is the same. It means that 100 bhikkhus, 50 bhikshu nuns when the Buddha lived in the world has witnessed this holy fruit. Meaning that they after the birth of birth and death always said: "The birth of the birth has been completed, the deed has set up, what to do, we have done and we know for sure that the next life is not Also reborn.

For the 40 male and 30 female laypeople only witnessed the first three fruits of the Four Noble Truths when the Buddha was still alive, did not speak the knowledge of this path of birth, because craving is still there. birth and death are still present and even the path of Mahayana Bodhisattva is the same. It means that the layman can release birth and death, but can not enter the throne of Arhat or Buddha fruit. Because love is still. May we all soon be separated from the net, to gain self-control in the matter of birth and death.END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.4/2/2018.