'Birth and Death' is a very personal description of the path of training in Zen Buddhism by the second Abbot of Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey, Rev. Master Leandra Robertshaw. R.M. Leandra writes; 'It is a paradox that the more we take on board, and are in touch with our responses to even the smallest changes in our environment (both external and internal), the more we also come across our internal stability which is not stirred by conditions. That stability is the Unborn, the fundamental nature of being. It is beyond pain, for here there is no suffering...'