Today I'm going to talk about one of my favorite things to talk about, which is

impermanence. Now I've talked about it before, but I'm going to talk about what applies to the different areas

of our lives, you know, in ways that it creates suffering. So of course impermanence, if you are not familiar,

is a concept in Buddhism that essentially notes that everything is always in a state of decay, that it's not permanent, impermanence.

The idea there is to recognize that all things are changing all the time.

And so that if we can grapple with that fact, if we can really give ourselves over to this notion that

everything is always changing, then we'll be less and hopefully ideally completely free from attachment to everything.

And so what does that really mean and what is the valuable outcome of that, right?

So what that means in terms of not being attached to anything is we can look at very surface level things first.

This is playing the game on easy mode.

So say we are going to order a cup of coffee and they, we say,

say, hey, I'd like a double espresso please.

And they said, oh, actually our espresso machine is broken right now.

We just have a pourover or drip coffee or whatever, cold brew. If you are

attached to your desire to have an espresso, then you can get really irritated and you'll react in some way.

You'll generally be frustrated, you may say something, make some comments to the person there, you may be kind of angry, and then

if you begrudgingly order something else, even though it's delicious, you won't be able to enjoy it for what

it is, which actually, since we're talking in this realm right here, I would say that this is really a good analogy for the true nature of reality,

reaching and connecting to what is ultimately true and staying present with that and how beautiful it is, right?

So the true nature of reality in this

espresso,

the espresso, they don't have it,

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