All his life Buddha
(Shakyamuni -because there is infinite quantity of buddhas and everybody of us will reach one day this state too)
told to his followers about impermanence. Even his last thought was about it. Why is this concept so important? Because who understands impermanence understands suffering and emptiness of "I", liberate himself from suffering and becomes Illuminate.
You don't need anything to practice, says Buddha. All you need is your body.
For example you have a pleasant sensation. This sensation has to appeare from a cause. What is this cause? It's your body.
But your body is something composed, impermanent, conditioned by many things.
Can that pleasant sensation be permanent if it appears from that impermanent ecc cause?
Manifestations of physical, corporal sensations are all manifestations of impermanence.
All manifestations are composite, all originate from causes and because of it all are doomed not to last, to pass, to disappear. You know it for your own experience. A pleasant sensation never last forever. It arises for some cause and disappears for this reason.
Every existant thingis impermanent. Observe it and you will keep away from suffer.
There is the only fixed condition, the only invariabile fact, the only fixed law:
all physical and mental formations are impermanent, subjected to suffering and without essence (substance).
Nobody can control this phenomena and every desire of control is suffering.
What to do?
Accept it.
Be open to the changes.
Practice 1:
Observe a phenomena. How it arises, passes and disappears.
Practice 2:
Your eye ( ... ) is impermanent.
Everything impermanent is not satisfactory.
Everything is not satisfactory, has not substance.
Everything that has not substance can't be "my", "I"
And when you prove in this way with your own experience, you will lose passion for your body ecc, and you will become free from them.
Texts used for overview:
Maha-Satjpatthana Suttanta
Bahiya Sutta
Brahamajala Suttanta
and others
Related post:
The Doctrine of Impermanence
It's sad that good thing doesn't last but great that bad thing doesn't either. So, you see, one can find bliss with this concept. If good thing doesn't last,better things may come. If bad thing doesn't last, good thing will come. It just depends on how we take it to milk this bliss.I bet you have read about my doctrine of impermanence in http://dhammadelights.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteYes Liudmila the change is the true and blantant truth of nature
ReplyDeleteso when there is a change there is dissappearance of something from original so there is nothing like permanent so impermancy exists
Footiam, I added you post as related, but in this moment have not possibility to read something, I'll read it later. Maybe tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI like how you say about it, that when the bad thing goes away it makes place for good thing ecc.
It's a very right understanding, I think.
Dear DEBASIS, could you explain more in detail your thought, it's interesting.
yes Liudmila suppose you are reading a book keeping it on your hand you mark your thumb is at a place connected to book,after sometime you left the book and went for dinner, you came and hold the book again,is not there a difference in position of your thumb,yes there is a change though very minute,you can notice that. Where did the previous position of your thumb go?The position of your thumb on book has changed.Everything in this world will disappear by powerful entity TIME.Except TIME,SPACE,GOD and CAUSALITY
ReplyDeleteYour example, Debasis, is very clear. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I'm maybe not agree with you. Because I think, TIME does not exist. It's something invented by humans. Like "meter", "degree".
So, time can do nothing because doesn't exist.
How can you explain existance of past, presens and future in the same moment? Did you never have this experience? What is time if all it's parts exist together?
yes Liudmila time is always flowing since incidents are making it remarkable ,we may call it incident time.
ReplyDeleteGreat definition! :)))
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