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Do you like change?
This continues from the article “Do you ever feel discouraged?” If someone were to ask you: “Do you want to be exactly the same person, in the same situation, in the same moods, in 5 years’ time or...
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Subtle impermanence
(Carrying straight on from Living in the moment.) We can ask ourselves how many of the decisions etc we make are truly new and how many are just recreating the past? Let’s say someone was critical of...
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Healing the past
I think life is too weird if we don’t accept momentary impermanence and go day by day with the flow. We keep getting surprised, shocked: “I can’t believe that happened; it is so weird!” And life feels...
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Breaking the ties that bind
Now that we have developed some wisdom on the subject of subtle impermanence, we need to use the second approach, which is making a determination. We are in such a bad habit of grasping at the ties...
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Nothing sticks around
We can understand subtle impermanence in two ways. (And I am once again unabashedly going to borrow Gen Samten’s explanations on the subject.) No carry over The first we have looked at already, vis...
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What is there to grasp at?
If something doesn’t remain for even a moment — if it is gone as soon as it arises — then what is there to hold onto??! (Carrying on from this article.) For example, we meet someone we like – but if...
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Life is like a flash of lightning
Two ways of thinking about the same thing Geshe Kelsang has said that “arising, abiding, and ceasing are just three different ways of thinking about the same event.” Even arising and ceasing (or...
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Matters of life and death
11 mins read. The law of entropy shows that despite all our best efforts to hold things together somehow, everything is being flung apart all the time – our relationships, our families, our...
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