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Birth and death

Look at the wave. The wave rises and falls. It comes from the ocean and goes back into it. It has it's own form of a wave but its core essence is water. Two waves can have different forms. One can be tall or short or one can live a bit longer than the other. But the essence of every wave is water.

Wave existed as water before it took the form of a wave. And it will continue to exist as water even after it dies and becomes one with the ocean.

So where is the birth and where is the death!

Did we exist before we came in this form? Will we exist after this form dies? What is our true essence?


Look at the tree. Before the tree was the seed. Then the seed became the tree. The seed is the tree.

Seed has the essence of life and it transforms itself into another living form.

From that same tree came many more seeds. Many of those seeds became trees again.

From life comes life. Is this life which is in the seed different from the life which is in the tree?

One form just transforms into another. But at the substratum, the hidden layer underneath, the chain remains unbroken.

Who dies and who is born?

From which seed have we transformed into the current form? 

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