Elaboration:
Friends:
Experiencing Impermanence comprehends the futility of
clinging!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
What, Ananda, is experiencing impermanence, inconstancy &
transience?
When a Bhikkhu, having gone to a forest, to the foot of a tree, or
to an empty
place, reflects: all Form is Inconstant, all Feeling is Fleeting,
all Experience
is Impermanent, all Mental Construction is Transient, all
Consciousness is
Momentary and in this way remains noting the impermanence,
inconstancy
and transience of these 5 Clusters of Clinging...
Then this, Ananda, is the experience of impermanence...,
The perception of inconstancy... &
The sensation of transience...
Source (edited extract):
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 10:60, AN V
108ff.
Girimananda Sutta
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an...0.060.than.html
Buddha furthermore explained:
Bhikkhus, there is no lasting materiality, no lasting form
whatsoever...
there is no lasting feeling whatsoever...
there is no lasting perception whatsoever...
there is no lasting mental construction whatsoever...
there is no lasting conscious awareness of anything
whatsoever...
there is permanent, everlasting, eternal, not subject to
change,
not transient, not vanishing, that will last as long as eternity...
!!!
SN 22.96/vol. iii, 144
All formations, all constructions are impermanent, transient,
vanishing...
MN 35/vol. i, 230
Whatever can arise and emerge, that also will surely cease...
MN 56/vol. i, 380
Impermanence is not Evident unless specifically looked for:
False Apparent Continuity covers up and camouflages
Impermanence:
The characteristic of impermanence does not become apparent
because,
when rise and fall are not given attention, it is concealed by
continuity...
However, when continuity is disrupted by observing rise & fall
here & now,
the characteristic of impermanence becomes apparent in its true
nature.
Vism. Ch. xxi/p. 640
Moments of mental states always change as Iron darts hit:
Observing the abrupt Change of all States discloses their discrete
nature:
When continuity is disrupted means, when it is exposed by
observation of
the perpetual alteration of states as they go on occurring in
succession.
For it is not through the connectedness of states, that the
characteristic of
impermanence becomes apparent to one who rightly observes rise and
fall,
but rather the characteristic becomes properly evident through
their discrete
disconnectedness, regarded as if each moment were iron darts,
hitting in on
reality one by one separately, instead of as a continuous flow of
slow change.
VismA. 824
All states rise and fall. This characteristic of change, ageing
& evanescence
is the universal impermanence of all worldly. Nothing here escapes
change!
It is a distortion of view, perception and thinking to regard
anything as lasting!
Impermanence inherently implies suffering as all what is liked will
evaporate!
Impermanence implies no-self as nothing remains identical as same
identity!
Whether internal or external: It is only passing states - material
& mental - ...
Experiencing impermanence thus also means seeing suffering and
no-self!
When realizing that all states passes on and evaporates
instantly,
one realizes the impossible futility inherent in all forms of
clinging.
It is like sand running out between the fingers. It can never be
kept!
Nothing can ever be kept, owned, possessed, maintained or
retained!
So let it go. Release it! Relinquish it all. Do not fear. Nothing
lasting is lost!
It was never your's anyway. It will go away by itself anyway. Is is
pain anyway!
It was never really the same anyway, & it will never ever
return again anyway...
More on impermanence, inconstancy & transience (Anicca)
Anicca (Impermanence) According to Theravada (Bhikkhu
Ñanamoli):
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors...s/wheel186.html
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Trans..._formations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Perce..._Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Impe...ence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_I..._Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_E..._Transience.htm
Friendship is the Greatest
Bhikkhu Samahita Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct
http://groups.google.com/group/What_Buddha_Said