DooDoot wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 6:42 am
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What does this mean?
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I always thought death was permanent as in permanently dead or as in dead dead. My grandmother is been dead for long and she is going to keep like this as far as I know.
Could this mean rebirth? If you are no longer dead... But then how aging would stop.
I can understand the impermanence of the process of growing old, brokenness of teeth, greyness of hair, wrinkling of skin, decline of vitality, degeneration of the faculities. This is not forever, this is only until one is dead. But here we are back to square one.
Perhaps it means the process of dying is impermanent? The passing away, perishing, breakup, disappearance, mortality, death, completion of time, the breakup of the aggregates, the laying down of the carcass can't last forever?
The Buddha says aging&death is conditioned, dependently arisen, but dependent on what. Is it dependent on conceiving beings? Then aging and death ceases as soon as the conception of the being ceases. He says it depends on birth and up until ignorance so aging and death can only hold as long as there is ignorance down to birth.
What does it mean birth is impermanent?