Lessons on impermanence are not absorbed overnight. Our habits are too entrenched. We learn, have insights, but we do not apply them, or are too threatened by them. The Buddha identified mistaking impermanence for permanence as one of the primary causes of suffering. Known as the Supreme Physician, he offered a cure for the sickness of samsara. But until we identify this sickness for ourselves, we will not accept the cure.
Mingyur Rinpoche
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Further quotes from the book In Love with the World :
- Spacious awareness
- Stretching a bit further
- Facing suffering
- Short moments, many times
- Awareness contains impermanence
- The source of what we like or do not like
- Reverse activity
- Accepting whatever happens
- Within each one of us
- Boundless reality
- Nothing endures but change
- Vast and intimate
- Great news
- It’s how we relate to emotions
- Change yourself
- Upholding the lineage
- Anywhere, anytime
- Stay with what is
- Meditative awareness