The chapter on birth and death explains that the souls of all people are impermanent, and the spirit exists, following actions and transmigrating through rebirth. | 生死品者，说诸人魂，灵亡神在，随行转生。 |
Life is like a fruit waiting to ripen, always fearing it
will fall. All that is born has suffering, who can attain immortality?
| 命如菓待熟， 常恐会零落。已生皆有苦， 孰能致不死？
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From the initial enjoyment of love, one enters the foam and shadow of
desire. The life span is like lightning, flowing day and night, difficult to stop.
| 从初乐恩爱， 可婬入泡影，受形命如电， 昼夜流难止。
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This body is a dead object, the spirit is a formless dharma. Even
if one dies and is reborn, one's merits and demerits do not perish.
| 是身为死物， 精神无形法，假令死复生， 罪福不败亡。
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The beginning and end are not just one lifetime, from delusion and love lasting long
From here one experiences suffering and happiness, the body dies but the spirit does not perish.
| 终始非一世， 从痴爱久长，自此受苦乐， 身死神不丧。
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The body is the four great elements as form, the consciousness is the four aggregates
as name. The emotions are of eighteen kinds, the objects of perception arise as twelve.
| 身四大为色， 识四阴曰名，其情十八种， 所缘起十二。
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The spirit abides in nine places, birth and death do not cease and perish
The foolish in the world do not hear, obscured and dark without the heavenly eye.
| 神止凡九处， 生死不断灭，世间愚不闻， 蔽暗无天眼。
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Self-anointed with the three defilements, the blind mind falsely sees, saying that
death is like the time of birth, or saying that death is annihilation.
| 自涂以三垢， 无目意妄见，谓死如生时， 或谓死断灭。
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The consciousness spirit creates the three realms, the five places of good and
bad. The silent going of the aggregates is like the response of an echo.
| 识神造三界， 善不善五处，阴行而默到， 所往如响应。
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Desire, form, and formless existence all arise from past actions. Like
seeds following their original form, the natural retribution is as one wishes.
| 欲色不色有， 一切因宿行，如种随本像， 自然报如意。
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The spirit is named after the body, like fire being named after its form
Lighting a candle is called candle fire, following charcoal, grass, and dung as fuel.
| 神以身为名， 如火随形字，著烛为烛火， 随炭草粪薪。
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When mental phenomena arise, they arise; when phenomena cease, they cease
Arising and ceasing are like hail, constantly changing without recognizing themselves.
| 心法起则起、 法灭而则灭，兴衰如雨雹， 转转不自识。
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The consciousness spirit runs through the five paths, not changing in any place. Abandoning
one body and receiving another body, it is like a wheel turning on the ground.
| 识神走五道， 无一处不更，舍身复受身， 如轮转著地。
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Just as a person lives in one body, leaving their old house behind. The spirit
uses the body as a dwelling, but when the body perishes, the spirit does not perish.
| 如人一身居， 去其故室中，神以形为庐， 形坏神不亡；
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The spirit dwells in the physical body, like a sparrow hiding in a container. When
the container breaks, the sparrow flies away. When the body perishes, the spirit is reborn.
| 精神居形躯， 犹雀藏器中，器破雀飞去， 身坏神逝生。
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The ignorant always think of purity, pleasure, and the body, and have
doubts. Dislike and hope are not essential. The Buddha says this is ignorance.
| 性痴净常想， 乐身想疑想，嫌望非上要， 佛说是不明。
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One root, two branches, three defilements, five more spread out. The thirteen things
in the ocean, the abyss is exhausted, and there is joy in transcendence.
| 一本二展转， 三垢五弥广，诸海十三事， 渊销越度欢。
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When the three things are cut off, one knows the body is
worthless. The breath, warmth, and consciousness leave the body and pass on.
| 三事断绝时， 知身无所直，命气煴煖识， 舍身而转逝。
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When lying dead on the ground, like grass, without any knowledge. Observing
its appearance like this, it is just an illusion, yet foolishly greedy.
| 当其死卧地， 犹草无所知，观其状如是， 但幻而愚贪。
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