Birth and Death.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH. 1. Good practice is to ask yourself: “Why was I born?” Morning, noon, afternoon, evening… every day ask yourself that question. 2. My birth and death are only one. You cannot have one without the other. People mourn when someone dies, and laugh with joy when a child is born. How intoxicating and humorous! If you want to cry, cry when someone is born. Cry for the cause, cry for the root, because if you are not born, you will not die. 3. Is it so good to be in someone's belly! It's not comfortable at all! Try to think! Just living in a small hut for one day is enough to be uncomfortable! Close all the doors of the room and you have tasted suffering! Wow! Yet in a person's belly for up to nine months! Do you still want to be born again? You know it's uncomfortable lying on your stomach, and yet you still want to pull your head back in that dark place? Stop putting your head in the noose! 4. Why were we born? I was born to not have to be born again. 5. When death is not understood, this life has many problems. 6. The Buddha taught Ananda to observe impermanence, contemplating death in each breath. We must understand death. We die to live. What does this sentence mean? To die is to end all doubts, all problems and live in the present moment. We don't die tomorrow, we have to die now. Can you do this? If you can do it, then there is no problem and peace and quiet will come to you. 7. Death is close to us right in the breath. 8. If you know the right training and practice, you will not be afraid when you get sick and will no longer grieve over the death of a loved one. When you have to go to the hospital for treatment, make sure to confirm that: It is good to be cured, but it is also good not to be cured. If the doctor told me that I had cancer and would die within the next few months, I would tell the doctor: “Be careful, death is coming for you too! It's just a matter of who goes first and who goes after." Doctors cannot cure or prevent death. Only Buddha can do this. So what are you waiting for without taking the Buddha's medicine? 9. If you are afraid of diseases, if you are afraid of death, then observe where they come from. Where do they come from? They come from birth. So, don't be sad when someone dies, their suffering in this life is over, death is a natural thing. If you want to be sad, be sad when someone is born: “Poor! They have come again. They are about to suffer and die again.” 10. Those who understand clearly realize that all dharmas in the world have no substance. Therefore, the Knowers are neither happy nor sad because they are not swept away by these ever-changing worldly dharmas. To be happy is to be born. To be sad is to die. Die and be born again, and be born and die again. Living and dying in every moment is an endless cycle of birth and death. Body 11. If this body could talk, it would tell us all day long: “You are not my master! Do you know?" Actually, it's talking to us, but it's using Dharma language so we don't understand it. 12. Everything in this world does not depend on me. They go in their natural direction. This body has its own way, we cannot interfere. We can make this body a little more beautiful, attractive and clean in a moment like girls with long nails and pink lipstick, creating a beautiful charm. But when old age comes, everyone is the same. Such is the way of the body, beyond our control. There is only one thing we can do, and that is to beautify our souls. 13. If this body really belongs to me, it will obey my orders. When I say: "Don't get old!" or “I forbid you from getting hurt!”, does it listen to me? Are not! It doesn't care about my opinion at all. We are only tenants, not owners of this "house". If we think that this body is ours, we will suffer greatly when we have to leave it. In fact, there is no permanent, unchanging self, nothing fixed or stable that we can hold onto. Breath 14. From the moment you open your eyes until you leave the world, but you have not had a moment to be aware of the breath coming in and out in your body, you have lived far away from yourself. 15. Time is our breath in the present. 16. You say you are too busy to have time to meditate? Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but no time to meditate? The breath is the living thing of life. If you are aware that the Dharma is the very essence of life, you will feel that the breath and the practice of the Dharma are equally important.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=BUDDHIST DHARMA WHEEL GOLDEN MONASTERY= BUDDHIST DHARMA WHEEL GOLDEN MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.2/12/2021.