“Zenfully Quool Quotes”
Currently featuring “The Art of Living”
By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.
There are turtles that live to be three or four hundred years old,
and redwood trees that live more than a thousand years.
Our own life span is only about a hundred years at most.
How are we living those years?
Are we making the most of our days?
What are we here to realize or to accomplish?
Later,
we may look back and wonder,
“What have I done with my life?”
Time goes by so quickly. Death comes unexpectedly.
How can we bargain with it?
To wait until tomorrow is too late.
We all want to live deeply so our lives are not wasted
and when death comes we won’t have any regrets.
When we are fully established in the present moment,
we know that we are alive, and that it’s a miracle to be alive.
The past has gone, and the future has not yet come.
This is the only moment where we can be alive, and we have it!
We have to make this present moment into
the most wonderful moment of our life.
Contemplating impermanence helps us touch freedom and happiness
in the present moment.
It helps us see reality as it is, so we can
embrace change, face our fears, and cherish what we have.
When we can see the impermanent nature of a flower, a pebble,
the person we love, our own body, our pain and sorrow,
or even a situation,
we can make a breakthrough into the heart of reality.
Impermanence is something wonderful.
If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.
A seed could never become a plant of corn;
the child couldn’t grow into a young adult;
there could never be healing and transformation;
we could never realize our dreams.
So impermanence is very important for life.
Thanks to impermanence,
everything is possible.
“Impermanence is just as capable of bringing about happiness
as it is of bringing about suffering.
Impermanence is not bad news.
Because of impermanence,
despotic regimes are subject to fall.
Because of impermanence, illness can be cured.
Thanks to impermanence,
we can enjoy the wonder of the four beautiful seasons.
Thanks to impermanence,
anything can change and transform in a more positive direction.
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Zenfully Quool Quotes Quommentary
by rog
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There is indeed poetic beauty in the spiritual concepts of impermanence…
As Thich has elegantly stated…
I’m sure we’d all embrace change…
If it weren’t for the fact it’s usually for the worse
:-O
We never ever have been cursed with “permanence” …
with the sun never setting or rising…
A child that never grows old.
An illness that never comes or goes away…
we ether die or get better.
So,
The practice of ‘impermanence’
is not as straightforward as it seems like it should be.
An aspirant does not just jump right into the practice of impermanence…
One needs to study or at least get acquainted with
The Buddha’s Noble Eight-Fold Path.
For a more thorough introduction please read:
https://mauimarryingman.com/category/buddhas-noble-eight-fold-path/
The first 4 ‘Paths’ help one to develop the ‘right’ understanding of
the spiritual philosophies and psychological perspectives
to gain the basic fundamental knowledge required to
properly integrate the real-life experiences of impermanence
into useful spiritual lessons.
A big real-life lesson of impermanence is:
not to allow the inconvenience of ‘change’ effect your wellbeing.
Often, what seems like “Change”
is simply the cause and effect of things
we just were not mindful enough to see coming.
The classic one is when someone says to you:
“Oh, you changed! You’re not the person you used to be”.
When all that really happened is that
they never really knew you to begin with.
Then,
They egotistically abandon the “relationship” of many years in spite.
Only proving that they were just too shallow and narcissistic, or perhaps mentally damaged either psychologically or a physical brain injury
to make the ‘right effort’ to really be a true friend.
Transpose this onto the general voting population…
All these years,
we naively assumed that
everybody shared some sort of common moral thread…
Some basic concern that we all have in common…
But,
When they go to vote,
they abandon all critical thinking and loose that thread
we assumed we all had in common.
…and we think:
“What has changed”?
“Why did they change?”…
When in reality…
They were always just mentally vulnerable to
psychotic psychopathic demagogue politician’s rants.
We just never had the chance to understand the depth
of their shallowness.
It feels like being sucker punched.
We never saw it coming, yet…
Womp! There it is.
And we feel betrayed, angry, sad, bummed out, hopeless and depressed that :
“How can we live in a country with the majority of us so duped…
So dumb…
What changed?!
Nothing! …
We just never had the opportunity to really get to know our fellow citizens.
This is just an example of the current times.
To study the final 4 Paths…
and experience the fruition of transcending the entire series of Paths…
One will experientially understand, inherently through ‘Insight meditation’
the Liberating aspects of the entire ‘Practice’.
There are many aspects to the broad spectrum of “spirituality”.
I focus on the very most essential aspect one could endeavor to aspire to…
The complete path to Enlightenment
and thus,
The Fruition of Full Liberation from the unnecessary pain and suffering
we all inherently are challenged with, but yet,
Very few are curious enough to want to learn more about it
and ultimately
transcend the ignorance we spend our whole lives creating.
For that rare person that aspires to understand
the age-old philosophical questions of life:
Who am I?
What is my purpose?
What is the purpose of life?
What is my place in life?
What could be before or after this life?
You will gain the wordless Wisdoms
that answer all of those questions…
Not by getting analytical answers of knowledge from words …
But,
By having the deep Spiritual Insights that render all those questions as…
Trivial.
The wordless Wisdoms transcend those naive questions, yet…
Once they are ‘absorbed’…
The understandings become so simple,
you’ll be surprised at how simple and right in front of you
they’ve been your whole life.
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