One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

A quote by Zen Master Dogan.

We are snowflakes melting on the tongue of the universe a quote by John Mark green

Welcome to this episode on understanding impermanence.

Impermanence is a concept that I've been wanting to share with you for a long time and now it's finally the time to do it. Impermanence is a fundamental teaching of Buddhism and Hinduism. I want to introduce you to this

concept and this term because I'll be referencing it again and again in the future because it's

very fundamental to living a quality life and it's a concept which unfortunately isn't very well

understood in the West. So in Polly, the language Polly, which of course is Buddhist related to Buddhism, they have a term called

Anicha, a nicha, which means impermanence and literally you can break that word

into its two components ah which means non and Nietzsche or Nika which means constant so a Nietzsche is non-constant or

impermanence but then there's also a parallel word from Sanskrit, which is more connected with Hinduism,

and the term there is Anitia, Ah, Nitia, which also means something like non-constant.

Of course, these are just eastern traditions, Buddhism and Hinduism.

Don't think that this concept of impermanence is only coming from these two traditions

this really this concept is a spiritual concept that comes from and is present in most of the world's

spiritual traditions,

whether east or west, although of course

in Western traditions oftentimes,

some of these concepts become very corrupt

or they get relegated to the sidelines as these religions become about power more so than about transcending the self

So what's so important about this concept?

Impermanence simply means that all form is non-constant.

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