The Life of a Human is Within His One Breath

The life of a human being exists within the process of one breath. Once the breath is stopped, the man will die!

Suppose I were able to live for one hundred years. Indeed, among the millions of people, how many can really live for one hundred years?

Just take an average count of the breathing of a man who can breathe for sixteen times within a minute, then in an hour he will breath 60 x 16 = 960 times. In a day which consists of 24 hours, he will breathe for 24 x 960 = 23,040 times. In a year which consists of 365 days, he will breathe for 365 x 23,040 = 8,409,600 times. Then in a hundred years he will breathe eight billion four thousdand million times.

Every time when I breathe in the air and send it out, I will be losing one breath … Oh, poor me, everyday I lose 23,040 breaths. In a year’s time, I will be losing 8,409,600 breaths. Our lifespan which amounts to a few years will come to an end when I have finished sending out the last breath.

From here, we can see that life is indeed short and impermanent!

Some people say, “As soon as a child is born, he begins to die”.

Indeed, the day we come to the human realm, is also the day when start walking towards death!

In this Saha World, what is that in life which is really worth our clinging to?

Because I want to be liberated from the Saha World of the five turbidities, I am mindful of the Buddha, “NAMO AMITUOFO” May I be born in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss!