When it is said that beings are like the moon reflected in limpid water rippled by a gentle breeze, the reflection and its watery support are alike in being, at every moment, impermanent and empty in nature."

    

Impermanence

A goodbye is already part of a hello. Birth and death dependently arise. The belief in inherent existence creates the appearance that things are fixed and unchanging. However, nothing is a constant and what is, is already what is not. Impermanence is always right here, in each moment. And so death is also life. Every thought, feeling and perception-every moment, is in flux. Where in this understanding can fear be maintained? Beneath superficial appearances, coming and going, birth and death, this and that, cannot be singled out, but are interrelated, empty of their own independent existence.

  

"Empty things, reflections and the like, dependent on conditions, are not imperceptible. And just as empty
forms reflected in a glass create a
consciousness in aspect similar, so too all things, though empty,strongly manifest within their very
emptiness and since inherent nature
is in neither truth, phenomena are
neither nothing nor unchanging entities". END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.3/3/2014.THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.