Thẩy Thích Nhất Hạnh's Old Path White clouds
He saw that each cell of his body was like a drop of water in an end-lessly flowing river of birth, existence and death
If one's perceptions were accurate, reality revealed itself with ease; but if one's perceptions were erroneous, reality was veiled
People were caught in endless suffering because of their erroneous perceptions; they believed that which is impermanent is permanent that which is without self contains self that which has no birth and death has birth and death
Though we ordinarily think that a leaf is born in the springtime, Gautama could see that it had been there for a long long time in the sunlight, the clouds, the tree and in himself.
Seeing that the leaf had never been born, he could see that he too had never been born.
Both the leaf and he himself had simple manifested - they had never been born and were incapable of ever dying
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