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Impermanence.

anicca — the first of the three universal truths

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“Impermanent are all conditioned phenomena of the nature to arise and pass away.”

  • The law of impermanence as taught by the Buddha asks us to look at the transience and instability of everything we come into contact with. Constant change is within us and in the external world. We see it everyday. Every cell in every body is changing moment to moment. Nothing stays the same. The mind also changes. If we stop and watch it we will see.
  • A major cause of our suffering is that we want things to be other than they are. If we like them, we want them to stay the same. If we don’t like them, we want them to change. This is purely desire and is born out of our delusion in not recognising that things simply cannot stay the same.
  • Even our breath changes. Can we only breathe in? Or out? Can we learn to accept that we are not in control of this body and that, with birth, we brought the suffering and certain death which is within each of us?

May this teaching lead you to happiness; may it help you grow in truth. May we all be freed from the suffering of birth and death.

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