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The Deathless.

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“Die before you die” is another well-known saying which is difficult for us to comprehend. Only when we undertake the practice and begin to understand the foundations of the Buddha’s insight can we gain real clarity on what the teachings mean.

Freedom from suffering is liberation from the wheel of samsara. It means that we are no longer troubled by whatever arises and passes in our day to day since we know that everything which we perceive is anicca, dukkha, anatta — impermanent, unsatisfactory and not-self. In this way we can see that the physical body doesn’t have to actually die before we can free ourselves from the bondage of conceptual reality.

Everything we grasp at and cling to as being ‘a self, belonging to us or belonging to another’ is a cause for suffering to arise. In order to bring this suffering to cessation we must first eliminate the cause. As we have seen before, the cause is our own craving and attachment born of wrong understanding and the medicine, if you like, is relinquishment and letting go.

When the Buddha came to the end of his practice, he knew that there was nothing more to be added and nothing to be taken away. He and the Dhamma had reached completion. He declared that he would no longer be subject to the ritual of birth and death because he had overcome ‘becoming’ and gone beyond all the conventions and limitations of samsara, the world in which we find ourselves.

This is what is called ‘The Deathless’. If there is no birth then there can be no death.

May this teaching lead you to realisation; may it help you know the truth. May we all be freed from the suffering of birth and death.

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