(9.149) Just as there is no truly existent production of things,
So there is no truly existent cessation.
Thus, living beings are not truly born,
Nor do they truly cease.

If the cessation of things were truly existent, then there would be no production of things.  There would just be endings.  Nothing would change, everything would just stop.  For example, we would just die.  We don’t just die — we die and take rebirth.  We die and take rebirth because the cessation of things and the production of things are not truly existent.  If they were, then we would just die.  It appears that we do because we grasp at truly existent cessations.  But we do not really die, and we’re not really born.  And we do not really live either.

Another good example is karma.  We experience the results of the actions of previous lives, because the cessation of those actions was not truly existent.  If they were, there would be no karma carrying over, no cause and effect.  If actions truly ceased, then no effects would be experienced.  So our actions don’t really end.  Everything we do truly echoes in eternity.  If this makes sense, then it will so influence our life and our practice.