Several friends and relatives have died in the last two months. Only yesterday my aunt Rachel died – if I…
Browsing: Impermanence
7 mins read Do you ever have that feeling when you go back to a familiar place that you never…
8 min read Last night I dreamt that my spiritual teacher showed me all my lifetimes so far. These were…
Two ways of thinking about the same thing Geshe Kelsang has said that “arising, abiding, and ceasing are just three…
If something doesn’t remain for even a moment — if it is gone as soon as it arises — then…
We can understand subtle impermanence in two ways. (And I am once again unabashedly going to borrow Gen Samten’s explanations on…
When we feel overwhelmed with busyness it is usually because all our activities are bleeding into each other. With thoughts…
First, a little anecdote I wrote this about a dog and me a few years ago. “I am leaving today.…
“Time heals” because over time we forget. But why wait to forget?! Waiting passively for things to happen to us…
Now that we have developed some wisdom on the subject of subtle impermanence, we need to use the second approach,…