The cause of birth and death is because of attachment. It is the craving for satisfaction that is often so elusive.
Whatever we want seem to create more wants. There is the craving or attachment which drives one to want more and more and to die and to live again, only to die once more.
This goes on and on from moment to moment with each moment dying and giving birth to the next. At more helicopter level, there is birth, and birth will result in death as that which is born must die.
If so, then, if there is no birth, there will be no death. If there is no want, there will be none of the many wants in life.
But is there life beyond birth and death and beyond wants or craving. If we can live with wants and be restless and in dis-ease, surely we must be able to live without wants.
If there is no wants, we do not create more wants. We do not die so as to live again. Wants or craving is the problem. Some religion call it the original sin or problem. It is central to the Adam and Eve mythology.
We will be at peace if we cease to want. Ceasing to want does not mean not living or dying. Instead it is to be at peace and be more alive than mere living in wants.
We will be at peace while in the sea of life, the wants and the ups and downs. We do not contribute to more wants or craving but we live without wanting or craving in life of wants and craving.
When we cease wanting, we live more and have more peace or life. Ceasing to want does not mean dying to life but rather having more life.
Wants or attachment cause suffering with death as the ultimate. Deliverance from wants or attachment free us from suffering and death. We will be resurrected to more life.
Sages of old in China refer to polarities of life or life contingencies as yin and yang (e.g. gain loss, honor dishonor.).
Life is construed as wanting incessantly due to imbalance of yin and yang, with one causing more of the other and this goes on continuously.
They construed that we can stand still in life and be more alive if we can be atop the yin and yang and not go round and round with the yin and yang. We should not create more yin and yang by being atop yin and yang, not contribute more and be carried around by yin and yang.
We stop wanting and live more. We are resurrected to more life - eternal life of peace free from wants because we are atop yin and yang.
The story of Adam and Eve in Genesis is perhaps an apt, ingenious and pragmatic albeit simplistic way by sages of Old Testament era of presenting yin and yang concept via personification of yin and yang concept. It is at very least a parallel of yin and yang concept.
Cessation of wanting or sin means no death. In place, there is resurrection to eternal life as seen with saints like Buddha, Jesus and Lao Sze.
Yin and yang means more wants or sins and the problem of wants or sin is more deaths through rebirths. Being atop yin and yang means no death but eternal life beyond rebirths.
Do be resurrected and live more by not wanting, by not perpetuating 'want' which is the sin started by Adam and Eve in Genesis.
The Adam and Eve saga is good depiction of the concept of yin and yang problem of wants in men and why men must be atop yin and yang through Tao or Way.
Tao is the way to have more life by neither running from yin and yang nor going for more of yin and yang but just being atop yin and yang and be at peace.
This is the way to be delivered from wants or sin and have eternal life of peace which saints talk about. This is salvation of the soul.
Do be resurrected to eternal peace and not continue to be so damned in seemingly endless births and deaths.
This is the way to save souls and deliver them to eternal peace. This can be reached by all through any religion or sect or even if none. It is inherent in the teachings of all saints and not new.
Lord Bo Tien is merely a messenger of God to rekindle and reinvigorate the understanding of the Way. Call it Tao or what we like. It does not matter at all.
It does not matter even if we think Lord Bo Tien does not exist. But he who knows the doctrine or way knows and sees him for real.
Cessation of wanting or sin means no death. In place, there is resurrection to eternal life as seen with saints like Buddha, Jesus and Lao Sze.
Yin and yang means more wants or sins and the problem of wants or sin is more deaths through rebirths. Being atop yin and yang means no death but eternal life beyond rebirths.
Do be resurrected and live more by not wanting, by not perpetuating 'want' which is the sin started by Adam and Eve in Genesis.
The Adam and Eve saga is good depiction of the concept of yin and yang problem of wants in men and why men must be atop yin and yang through Tao or Way.
Tao is the way to have more life by neither running from yin and yang nor going for more of yin and yang but just being atop yin and yang and be at peace.
This is the way to be delivered from wants or sin and have eternal life of peace which saints talk about. This is salvation of the soul.
Do be resurrected to eternal peace and not continue to be so damned in seemingly endless births and deaths.
This is the way to save souls and deliver them to eternal peace. This can be reached by all through any religion or sect or even if none. It is inherent in the teachings of all saints and not new.
Lord Bo Tien is merely a messenger of God to rekindle and reinvigorate the understanding of the Way. Call it Tao or what we like. It does not matter at all.
It does not matter even if we think Lord Bo Tien does not exist. But he who knows the doctrine or way knows and sees him for real.
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