Evolution of love

WHAT IS IT THAT DIES?

I understood clearly that nothing dies. The citta certainly doesn’t die;

in fact, it becomes more pronounced. The more fully we investigate the four elements,

breaking them down into their original properties, the more distinctly pronounced the

citta appears.

So where is death to be found? And what is it that dies?

The four elements—earth, water, wind and fire—they don’t die. As for the citta,

how can it die? It becomes more conspicuous, more aware and more insightful.

This essential knowing nature never dies, so why is it so afraid of death?

Because it deceives itself. For eons and eons it has fooled itself into believing

in death when actually nothing ever dies.

So when pain arises in the body we must realize that it is merely feeling,

and nothing else. Don’t define it in personal terms and assume that it is something

happening to you.

Pains have afflicted your body since the day you were born. The pain that you

experienced at the moment you emerged from your mother’s womb was excruciating.

Only by surviving such torment are human beings born. Pain has been there from

the very beginning and it’s not about to reverse course or alter its character.

Bodily pain always exhibits the same basic characteristics: having arisen, it remains

briefly and then ceases. Arising, remaining briefly, ceasing—that’s all there is to it.