# What Can Be Relied On When Everything Changes

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Podcast: [Zen Mind](https://stenobird.com/podcast/zen-mind-898115)
Published: 2025-12-25T11:00:00+00:00
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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 "...

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