Impermanance

Coming into direct experience with reality, one realizes that life is impermanent in all its manifestations, whether it’s one’s internal experiences or in regards to situations, circumstances or objects. Impermanence reveals that life's manifestations are a play of energies and patterns that arise from the one true, constant ground of energy called love by some or emptiness/bliss by others. Life is truly like a flowing river.

As the saying goes, one never steps in the same river twice. This is the truth of impermanence. We actually live in an energetic reality that is constantly shifting and changing if we release the habit of creating a self, an” I”. As the mind opens we remember this truth and emanate and embody it in our living; rather than falling into the habit of identifying with all the internal content which then perceives life as solid, fixed and predictable. This creates suffering. The wisest approach to life is to realize and awaken to this truth, moving internally and externally with its constant flow.

Our thoughts, feelings, sensations, emotions, identities and experiences are an endless expression of patterns and the one unchanging energy of life “love” or “emptiness/bliss” or “luminosity”. Our minds have been trained to fixate on what we experience or see, believing it to be all that is real and all that exists rather than as it truly is; a passing pattern or thought. This approach has us believing and experiencing life as unchanging and rigid. You often hear people say “this is who I am” or “this is the way it is” failing to recognize they are only expressing a fixation of their mind; a reflection of their training and an attachment to a perception.

The quality of flowing with what we are experiencing is vital to our sense of well-being. Imagine doing this with conflicts or emotions or what you perceive as problems. How would that affect your quality of life? We all too often have or have seen people with a fixed sense of self or identity struggle, fight, try to change, or make things happen. This results in people feeling emotionally frustrated and/or disappointed unaware that these emotions are simply feedback of our approach, our perception that is not effective. We have come as a culture to accept these emotions as a constant part of human experience which preclude a vast range of emotional possibilities like ecstasy, bliss, joy, gratitude, appreciation to name a few. People are attached to their beliefs and perceptions unwittingly creating their own misery allowing no solutions or answers to be revealed that would create ease, peace, well-being, harmony and unity with life.

Often people feel afraid when they hear or experience the impermanence of reality. It’s disconcerting to the ego, and to the mind that thinks it knows, and thinks life is predictable. This is natural and only an experience upon your path, a veil to go through. As you stay present with the fear, the joy, the freedom and love of being one with life is revealed. You are connected with the essential flow of life, rather than being in your head and imposing on life how it should be.

Impermanence is the true nature of all phenomena in reality, whether it is what is happening inside of us in the form of thoughts, sensations or emotions; or externally in situations, circumstances or objects. All things come and go in their own time. In each second and moment the impermanence of life expresses itself as well as through the cycles of life: the seasons, phases of the moon and stages of our own life. Within those cycles, each moment, when seen with awareness, is alive and new.

Life is like a dance. Wisdom realizes and is awake to this fundamental truth of life’s impermanence contributing to our sense of happiness and well-being.

Welcome to the true nature of reality. May you flow, dance and experience the endless flow of all phenomena in each moment overcoming the habit to make life solid.

Love,
Lisa

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