"Master, how can one explain to lay people, the nonsense of after-life, the simplest Way of understanding life and death?"
"Only when they have a smattering of common sense. And then by an example out of physics. 'Before a candle was lit, and after it was blown out, what is the difference FOR THE FLAME?' (Mei Ling). Indeed, where has the flame gone to, back to the sun? Before the conception and after death, the person simply IS NOT. Does this answer your question?"
"Ah, but the candle has changed, due to the burning, the flame, Master."
"So has everybody made (physical) changes due to his life. One
cannot live without disturbing the environment one lives in. It
goes for every tiny bit of living, it is almost definitional for
life, Mind. So, the flame has wrought changes in the candle,
yet, has it changed the concrete building surrounding it very
much?"