”Nothing, from the highest states of existence down to the lowest hells, has even a scrap of permanence or stability. Everything is subject to change, everything waxes and wanes.”
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Geshe Potowa [states] “If you want to use a single Dharma practice, to meditate on impermanence is the most important.
At first meditation on death and impermanence makes you take up the Dharma; in the middle it conduces to positive practice; in the end it helps you realize the sameness of all phenomena.
At first meditation on impermanence makes you cut your ties with the things of this life; in the middle it conduces to your casting off all clinging to samsara; in the end it helps you take up the path of nirvana.
At first meditation on impermanence makes you develop faith; in the middle it conduces to diligence in your practice; in the end it helps you give birth to wisdom.
At first meditation on impermanence, until you are fully convinced, makes you search for the Dharma; in the middle it conduces to practice; in the end it helps you attain the ultimate goal.
At first meditation on impermanence, until you are fully convinced, makes you practice with a diligence which protects you like armor; in the middle it conduces to your practicing with a diligence in action; in the end it helps you practice with a diligence that is insatiable.”
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“Bless me and misguided beings like me, that we may truly understand impermanence”
Selections from “Words of My Perfect Teacher” chapter 2, “The impermanence of life” by Patrul Rinpoche