today we're going to be talking about
impermanence
so one of the really interesting things
if you
sit and meditate on a regular basis you
start to see thoughts coming and going
intellectually we know that thoughts
come and go
but the experience of actually seeing is
very different
because it starts to play into the rest
of our life we start to see that it's
not just thoughts that come and go
it's emotions that come and go we start
to see that sensations
physical sensations come and go we start
to see the situations around us in the
world come and go in short
we see that everything is changing all
of the time
some some of the changes are small some
of the changes are really big and right
now
you might be experiencing the feeling of
change at a massive
global scale it can be frightening it
can
induce a sense of anxiety very easily
the real skill here is being able to
sort of hold our seat seeing the change
happening
but not getting too swept away by it
that means not getting
too caught up in all of the information
that's flying around not getting too
caught up in our internal
thoughts but instead being able to step
back it doesn't negate the difficulty
it doesn't negate the seriousness and
that may well be something that we're
having to
sort of deal with in a very direct way
in our lives
and in the lives of the people that we
love and care about
so it's kind of finding this careful
balance
where we're able to be present for
ourselves
and for the people around us but also to
have a sense of ease
knowing that everything changes all of
the time
everything that arises in time
disappears
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