Only Momentary
Causes & Effects passes by...
Life, person, pleasure, pain,
all these join in any conscious moment that flicks by.
Even gods, that live for 84.000 aeons, are not the same, even for 2 such
moments!
Ceased aggregates of those dead and alive are all alike, gone for never to
return...
And those states and accumulations that break up meanwhile, and in any
future,
have no traits different from those ceased before. All states are equally
brief!
No world is born if consciousness is not produced! When consciousness is
present,
then the world appears as living! When consciousness dissolves, the world is
dead!
This is the highest sense, this concept of ever blinking re-becoming, can
justify...
No store of passed states exist anywhere, and no future stock of states to
come!
Those phenomena that are momentarily born, balance like seeds on a needle
point.
Fall and breakup of all states is surely foredoomed, even at their fleeting
birth...
Those present states decay now, unmingled with those past states, just gone
by.
They come from nowhere, break up, and then they inevitably go back
into nowhere..
Reality flash in and then flash out, as a
lightning in the sky... Not ever to be kept!
Even for a single moment, that
always passes away the very instant
it is perceived!
Visuddhimagga
625, Nd I 42
Momentary states
flashes in, and then immediately flashes out!
More on
this transience and Impermanence (Anicca):
Fingernail of Soil,
Rough Realism,
At_All_Times,
Wheel186,
Transient_formations,
Perceiving_Transience,
Impermanence_Anicca,
The Monkey passing the
Banana,
The_Internal_Transience,
The_External_Transience,
Noting_the_Breakup,
Experiencing_Impermanence,
Contemplating_Impermanence,
Hidden_Horror,
Highway_to_Nibbana,
Contemplating_Impermanence_2,
What_is_Mara,
The_Trap,
Experiencing_Universal_Transience,
Rise_and_Fall.
