The Gift of Impermanence

Impermanence can first appear as loss.

And yes, there is loss.

Things pass.

People change.

Bodies age.

Moments end.

But impermanence is also what allows renewal.

Without impermanence, grief would never soften.

Anger would never fade.

Confusion would never clear.

A wound would remain forever raw.

A mistake would define us permanently.

A mood would become a life sentence.

Because things change, healing is possible.

Because things change, learning is possible.

Because things change, forgiveness is possible.

Because things change, we are not trapped in who we were.

The same movement that takes away also opens.

In closing...

Everything changes outside.

Everything changes within.

The outside changes us.

We change our perception of the outside.

A word from someone shifts the inner weather.

An inner belief colors the whole world.

A memory changes how we hear a sentence.

A new experience changes how we remember the past.

Inside and outside reflect one another like two mirrors.

Between them, existence dances.

The practice of impermanence is not to stand outside this dance.

It is to feel the movement.

To touch fully.

To release gently.

To see the clinging.

To see the resistance.

To let the moment move.

Again.

And again.

And again.

Until even letting go is no longer something we do.

It is simply how life is seen.