When impermanence is understood the need for fulfillment is replaced with a satisfaction that whatever happens doesn’t really matter because one day what happens will prove just how impermanent things are…
Think of the fuss that’s made of the death, it’s the one thing we all have in common and it’s inevitable it will occur. When death is faced for what it truly is one is free, not to die, but to live. Since nobody knows what the future holds what does the future matter if the present isn’t lived to the fullest. It’s often said we can’t really know what’s going to happen, but we all know this, death at least in this form will one day happen, it’s just not known when that will be.
Death is a part of life as much as life itself is and regardless of any belief, one day this body will cease to support life in the form that’s known today. We can make up a place spiritually that we are going to go to when we die, but the body is going to become void of life and it will either be cremated, decay in a box six feet underground or in a vault above ground. If this one truth can be understood than nothing else would truly matter because the impermanence of all things would be known. Once the truth of impermanence is known, life takes on an entirely different dynamic and a mundane view no longer exists.
Everything reached for in life is used as a temporary fix strictly to fulfill some inner craving; this is the reason why one is never truly satisfied. If there wasn’t a craving to be fulfilled, there wouldn’t be a need for a temporary fix. To me this is why impermanence has so much value because when it’s understood the craving for fulfillment is replaced with a satisfaction that whatever happens doesn’t matter much because one day whenever that day may be, what’s happens will prove just how impermanent life really is…
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