By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: August 22, 2014
I like this "no birth and no death" quote from Thich Nhat Hanh, which I found at the URL shown:
Look at this piece of paper. It didn't come from nothing because from nothing you can't suddenly become something. Looking deeply into the sheet of paper, we can see the trees, the soil, sun, rain, and cloud that nourished the trees, the lumberjack, and the paper mill. This is where the sheet of paper comes from. Taking the form of a sheet of paper is only a new manifestation, not a birth.
And, it's impossible for the sheet of paper to die. When you burn a sheet of paper it turns into smoke vapor ash and heat, it continues in other forms
So the nature of the sheet of paper is "no birth and no death."
