Ep. 07 - The Buddha's Journey
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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The Great Truth of Impermanence
Everything is changing. People are born and then they die. Relationships form and then they change. Thoughts in mind states all come and go. All material things, material objects all eventually decay and break up. And on the larger scale, whole cultures and civilizations, rising ascendancy in power and then fade and disappear. We can certainly see this truth of change in all of our meditation experience. It's very obvious when we pay attention. Anything we might have is always subject to loss. So in this world of having, in this worldof possessing whether it's external things or internal that's the way we're relating to our internal experience. Now something is not quite fulfilling.
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