It appears as Lasting, but it is
Never so!
The Blessed Buddha once
said:
Bhikkhu, There is no
lasting materiality, no lasting form whatsoever...
There
is no lasting feeling whatsoever...
There is no lasting
perception whatsoever...
There is no lasting mental
construction whatsoever...
There is no lasting conscious awareness whatsoever...
Nothing here is permanent, everlasting, eternal, not subject to change,
not transient, not vanishing! Nothing is stable, safe or lasting ... !
SN 22.96/vol. iii, 144
Nothing is thus
worth clinging to...
SN 35.80/vol. iv,
50
The eye is impermanent,
visual forms, eye-consciousness, eye contact,
and whatever is felt as pleasant, painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant,
born of this eye-contact, that also is impermanent...
The ear is impermanent,
sounds, hearing-consciousness, ear contact,
and whatever is felt as pleasant, painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant,
born of this ear-contact, that also is impermanent...
The nose is impermanent,
smells, smelling-consciousness, nose contact,
and whatever is felt as pleasant, painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant,
born of this nose-contact, that also is impermanent...
The tongue is impermanent, flavours, tasting-consciousness, tongue
contact,
and whatever is felt as pleasant, painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant,
born of this tongue-contact, that also is impermanent...
The body is impermanent, touches, touching-consciousness, body contact,
and whatever is felt as pleasant, painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant,
born of this body-contact, that also is impermanent...
The mind is impermanent, thoughts,
mental-consciousness, mind contact,
and whatever is felt as pleasant, painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant,
born of this mind-contact, that also is impermanent...
SN 35.43/vol. iv, 28
All formations, all
constructions, all conditions are impermanent...
MN 35/vol. i, 230
Whatever can emerge, that
indeed
will
also cease...
MN 56/vol. i, 380
Impermanence, as pointed
out in the commentaries, is not always Evident
unless
we are constantly
alert and aware of its ubiquitous manifestations!
Know it in advance, and then you can
easily
see it everywhere at all times...
False Apparent
Continuity covers up and camouflages Impermanence:
The characteristic of
impermanence does not become apparent because,
when rise and fall are not given attention, it is concealed by
fake continuity...
However, when apparent continuity is disrupted by discerning rise and fall,
the characteristic of impermanence becomes apparent in its true nature.
Vism. Ch. xxi/p. 640
Observing the abrupt
Change of all States discloses their discrete nature:
As continuity is
disrupted, impermanence is exposed through our mindful
observations of the perpetual alteration of
all alternating
states as they
each and everyone arise and decay in succession.
For it is not
through the connectedness of states, that the characteristic
of
impermanence becomes apparent to one who rightly observes
rise and fall,
but instead it is
via the mindful observation of the transient
characteristic
of each state, which becomes evident through the discrete
disconnectedness
to each subsequent state, regarded as if each moment were
a singe
iron dart
hitting the screen of awareness, or like single pearls on the string
of time...
VismA. 824
More on the
Universal Fact of Impermanence:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Perceiving_Transience.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Impermanence_Anicca.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Internal_Transience.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Alien_Remote_and_Other.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Impermanence.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence_2.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm
