【Mindfulness of Death 念死无常】 The birth and death of beings is like watching a dance 众生生死等观戏

【Mindfulness of Death】- The birth and death of beings is like watching a dance

【The Extensive Sport Sutra (Lalita-vistara-sutra) also speaks of impermanence with many examples:
The three worlds are impermanent like an autumn cloud.
The birth and death of beings is like watching a dance.
The passage of life is like lightning in the sky; It moves quickly, like a waterfall.】

There are many examples cited in the above sutra: The three worlds are desire realm, form realm and formless realm. Regardless of desire, form or formless realms, they are all impermanent. Just like the autumn cloud. The autumn cloud has a description known as the ”ash grey dog, white cloud ash grey dog”, it is ever changing. Impermanence is as quick as this. Our life and death is just like watching a show, you do not know what to expect in the next scene. Aye! It is just like a show. Our lifetime is just like lightning in the sky, one moment it flashes the next moment, it disappears. It moves quickly just like the waterfall! We need to understand it this way and practice/meditate in accordance with the teachings.

SOURCE 来源 :

38B 25’59” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P200 LL3
English Lamrim Vol 1 P151

日常师父法语📡38B 25’59”手抄稿第5册P200 LL3

念死无常 : 众生生死等观戏

【《大游戏经》亦以多喻宣说：“三有无常如秋云，众生生死等观戏，众生寿行如空电，犹崖瀑布速疾行。”】

那么这个经上面有种种的比喻：这个三有就是欲有、色有、无色有，不管是欲界的、色界的乃至无色界的，都是无常，就像秋天的云一样。我们秋天的云有一个形容，叫苍狗白云，白云苍狗，瞬息万变，这个无常就这么快。然后我们的生死就像看戏一样，你不晓得这个戏下面，欸！就这么一场戏。所以我们这个寿命像空中的电，你看它一闪一闪，没有了；像瀑布，这么个快法！我们要这样去认识，如理如法地修持。