Impermanence is Buddha Nature
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Impermanence is Buddha Nature
Understanding that nothing is permanent will have us understand that this moment will never be again - there may be similar moments, there may be more beautiful or uglier moments, but this specific moment will never be again. When we know this, being present and seeing meaning even in the most mundane of things becomes very easy because every momen... See more
Naida • Ten Ways to Breathe Meaning into Existence
There is wonder and beauty in emptiness. What happens when we come to know that everything we experience is timelessly ephemeral – as fleeting as a “tiny drop of dew or a bubble floating in a stream”? As writer Octavia Butler invokes, what if God is change? I become present with each moment as a divine gift. I become wholly intimate with each exper... See more
Harmonizing the Body Electric
But we shouldn’t think that impermanence happens only to the outer appearance, and that inside there is something everlasting. Impermanence means that nothing can remain the same thing in two consecutive moments. So in fact there is no lasting “thing” that we can call impermanent; it’s semantically absurd to say “everything is impermanent.” The tru
... See moreThich Nhat Hanh • The Art of Living: mindful techniques for peaceful living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders
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Jan Chozen Bays MD • How to Train a Wild Elephant
This constant change or fluctuation, ex pressed by the Buddhist concept of “impermanence,” gives rise to the fundamental sufferings of human existence. But occasionally amid the flux of life, perhaps for a fleeting instant, we sense an underlying rhythm, a hum or a pulse, to all things. Such moments of insight and realization often occur after an e
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