With true impermanence or anicca (Pali), we do not know for sure what is coming. We learn to expect inconstancy. Yes, logically, as I grow older, there will be changes that will restrict my vision or mobility. Are those negative changes? My doctor described this as an improvement in my eyesight. That sounds good. Yet, if I cling to the view that this is good, what happens the next time my eyesight changes?
It was an honor to speak about impermanence with Lori Lee on her Love Your Story Podcast. Where Lori, helps to elicit what I mean by death with a little “d.” In season 2 of the Death Dhamma Podcast, the focus is on death with a little d. – the impermanence of all things and …
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If you are willing to make friends with impermanence you are on your way to less suffering. Here are 4 tips to simplify your practice.
Watch as Margaret Meloni joins the Zen Peacemakers and discusses how to core train for death. Together we discussed how you can create your own training plan, make death part of your regular practice, and helping you become ‘death-ready’. You can do this! Start where you are, and make good use of the Four Noble …
The plans you have made for your week, your month, your year – all of this is built on a perception of control, and an illusion of certainty. Yet, plans help us navigate our lives. Keep making plans, and as you do, acknowledge that there will be impermanence. Some of your plans, or elements of your plans will die. And when this happens, call it death. Remind yourself, that this is a type of death. Now, you are living with death.
