Search results for: "Impermanence"

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  2. Self-starting
     … It’s not the case that concentration arises and you try to be ahead of the game by saying, “Well, I’ll just watch it come, then watch it go, and then I’ll be seeing inconstancy or impermanence”—or whatever. That’s not right effort. I was reading a book a while back, saying that the Buddha taught two different ways of practice … 
  3. The Need for Right View
     … That proves inconstancy, proves that things are impermanent. Chalk up another insight.” That’s not what we’re here for. We’re here to develop concentration, to develop mindfulness, and all the other good qualities of the path. This is why you need right view to figure out what you need to do. If you find that trying to comprehend stress or suffering is … 
  4. Equanimity Isn’t Nibbana
     … You can will yourself to some extent not to be overcome by these things, to be equanimous to these things, but that willing is impermanent and doesn’t totally solve the problem. Only when you’ve reached the deathless do you have another source of pleasure that totally overwhelms the experience of pleasure and pain. It keeps you from being overwhelmed by ordinary pleasure … 
  5. Selfing & Not-selfing
     … Notice, he doesn’t say impermanent—he says inconstant. These things are changing all the time, and for that reason, they’re stressful. Then he asks, “If something is inconstant and stressful,” he doesn’t say to come to a conclusion there is no self. The conclusion is, “Are they worth claiming as your self?” As long as you haven’t developed the path … 
  6. Anger
     … There are lots of teachings about emptiness and inconstancy or impermanence that are wide of the mark. They may be interesting to reflect on, to speculate about, but if they don’t make any difference in what you’re actually doing from moment to moment, they’re pretty useless. This is why the Buddha avoided many of the issues that everyone else in his … 
  7. Preparing to Die Well
     … sometimes I think of putting my foot one place and it goes someplace else.” So the first summary has to do with aging. It also has to do with anicca: inconstancy. Impermanence. The world is swept away. Things keep changing, changing, changing all the time. And as for a body, it develops for a while and then starts to age and just falls apart … 
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