Episode
What Can Be Relied On When Everything Changes
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- Zen Mind
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- Dec 25, 2025
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- 2903
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Summary
This talk explores impermanence as an intimate fact of lived experience, in contrast to our desire for permanence and stability. Along with conditionality and no-self, impermanence is a core principle of Buddhist wisdom teachings. Yet these principles only matter when they are felt directly-in this breathing body, in sickness, aging, loss, and vulnerability. This is why we meditate: practice allows impermanence to be known not as an idea, but as an existential fact of our life. What we call "...