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- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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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