..续本文上一页osely: if there was no birth there would be no death. Can you understand this

　　Don”t think a lot. Just think: "This is the way things are." It”s your work, your duty. Right now nobody can help you, there”s nothing that your family and your possessions can do for you. All that can help you now is the correct awareness.

　　So don”t waver. Let go. Throw it all away.

　　Even if you don”t let go, everything is starting to leave anyway. Can you see that, how all the different parts of your body are trying to slip away

　　 Take your hair: when you were young it was thick and black, now it”s falling out. It”s leaving. Your eyes used to be good and strong, and now they”re weak and your sight is unclear. When the organs have had enough they leave, this isn”t their home. When you were a child your teeth were healthy and firm; now they”re wobbly, perhaps you”ve got false ones. Your eyes, ears, nose, tongue -- everything is trying to leave because this isn”t their home. You can”t make a permanent home in a sankhara; you can stay for a short while and then you have to go. It”s like a tenant watching over his tiny little house with failing eyes. His teeth aren”t so good, his ears aren”t so good, his body”s not so healthy, everything is leaving.

　　So you needn”t worry about anything, because this isn”t your real home, it”s just a temporary shelter. Having come into this world, you should contemplate its nature. Everything there is, is preparing to disappear. Look at your body. Is there anything there that”s still in its original form

　　 Is your skin as it used to be

　　 Is your hair

　　 It”s not the same, is it

　　 Where has everything gone

　　 This is nature, the way things are. When their time is up, conditions go their way. This world is nothing to rely on -- it”s an endless round of disturbance and trouble, pleasures and pains. There”s no peace.

　　When we have no real home we”re like an aimless traveller out on the road, going this way for a while and then that way, stopping for a while and then setting off again. Until we return to our real home we feel ill-at-ease whatever we”re doing, just like the one who”s left his village to go on a journey. Only when he gets home again can he really relax and be at ease.

　　Nowhere in the world is any real peace to be found. The poor have no peace and neither do the rich. Adults have no peace, children have no peace, the poorly educated have no peace and neither do the highly-educated. There”s no peace anywhere. That”s the nature of the world.

　　Those who have few possessions suffer and so do those who have many. Children, adults, the aged, everyone suffers. The suffering of being old, the suffering of being young, the suffering of being wealthy, and the suffering of being poor -- it”s all nothing but suffering.

　　When you”ve contemplated things in this way you”ll see anicca, impermanence, and dukkha, unsatisfactoriness. Why are things impermanent and unsatisfactory

　　 It”s because they”re anatta, not-self.

　　Both your body that is lying here sick and painful, and the mind that is aware of its sickness and pain, are called dhammas. That which is formless, the thoughts, feelings and perceptions, is called namadhamma. That which is racked with aches and pains is called rupadhamma. The material is dhamma and the immaterial is dhamma. So we live with dhammas, in dhamma, we are dhamma. In truth there”s no self anywhere to be found, there are only dhammas continually arising and passing away, as is their nature. Every single moment we”re undergoing birth and death. This is the way things are.

　　When we think of the Lord Buddha, how truly he spoke, we feel how worthy he is of salutation, reverence and respect. Whenever we see the truth of something, we see his teachings, even if we”ve never actually practice Dhamma. But even if we have a …

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