Impermanence

Those things that are essential to the practice of Vipassana have never changed from the first time I met him.

And that essentially would be feel sensations, understand Anicca, and maintain equanimity.

That's essential, and that has not changed.

So was it Goenkaji who came up with the part by part? Was it going, was Ubakhin just working with the sweeping, the flow, but he was doing part by part?

The mental aspect of vedana, which can only feel the physical sensations on the body.

And if we just stay with the emotional content and forget the sensations, The mind is still reacting to how we feel, so I'm not coming out of the problem.

But if I can stay with this sensation, understanding the mental contents that have arisen, but I stay with sensations, I try to develop my equanimity understanding Anicca, at that time, I'm actually starting to come out of my complex of conceit.

And so how would you like to come out of that complex of conceit? When we're dominated by the complex of conceit, we tend to micromanage, we tend to want to control situations.

So as I understand them, some of the very basics of Buddhism.

So the first thing that always comes to me when I try and explain the Dharma to someone, I talk about the three characteristics, Anicca, Anatta and Dukkha, which is everything's changing all the time.

There is unsatisfactoriness.

And there's no abiding self to whom it's happening.

I read it about six months ago.

Anyway, I came across this concert the other day and it was called Anicca, A-N-I-C-C-A.

And that is about the idea of impermanence and the idea that nothing in existence is permanent.

In fact, I have a tattoo on my wrist that is very sort of similar and sort of says the same thing, is that everything is a constant state of change.

Sometimes there's joy in what having that thing allows us to do.

There's another Buddhist teaching that I think helps explain why this is such a universal experience for people, which is the teaching of a Nietzsche or impermanence.

And everything that we have exists because of conditions.

Everything that we have.

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Anicca.

Anicca.

Anicca.

Which means changing, changing, changing.

And after six days or so, I actually had a breakthrough.

And so we want to understand that as well.

Anicca, dukkha, and anatta.

And we want to understand the five khandhas, and we want to understand the sixth sense door.

Because you cannot have the khandhas without the sixth sense doors.

And not to lock in a suit, but like I said in the very beginning, it's just a suit that's this big, especially because they abbreviate it.

But yeah, we have all of that, and we want to contemplate that it's That it's impermanent is a big one, because he asks the monks, he says, is it permanent or impermanent? And they say, it's anicca bante, right?

Aniccam bante.

And then he asks, what is impermanent? Is it suffering or is it pleasure? And they say, dukkham bante.

That is what the Dharma helps you do.

Anicca, Dukkha and Anath is all you need for that.

When you really understand what anicca is, dukkha and anatta is, then you escape the dimension of time and become timeless.

Anicca, dukkha and anatta are also timeless.

But once you understand that, you become timeless.

So there are two definitions to this word timeless.

Ça ne me viendra pas juste là, ni le nom de l'auteur ni le titre.

Vous savez, le livre, le mec écrit sur le— je ne me rappelle pas, c'était sur quoi, mais on se comprend, non ? Anicca, les choses s'évanouissent les unes derrière les autres.

Je voudrais garder au moins une chose, le titre, le nom.

Mais non, tout est parti.