#72- Growing with Impermanence

Over the next three weeks, Danis Bois proposes meditations on the theme of impermanence.

Impermanence is a Buddhist concept. Buddha teaches that the cause of human suffering is the attachment to everything that does not last.

Danis Bois prefers to address the theme of impermanance from a philosophical angle, as did Heraclitus, the VI century BC Greek philosopher who advocated that everything is constantly changing: “All things flow, nothing abides”; and also : “No man ever steps in the same river twice.” Danis Bois expresses these words in this way : “Everything is in perpetual motion.”

With this meditation (#72), Danis Bois suggests that we explore how to grow with impermanence and how we can apply this concept within our meditation and maybe even in our daily life.

Extracts :

In a world regulated as the cosmos is, eternally and infinitely, you do feel deep within you that every time, everything is different. Everything changes. Everything is transient. Everything is in motion in terms of your sensations, emotions and feelings…

And when things last, they continuously evolve… Nothing can become fixed… in the living world at least…

I invite you to become aware of the ephemeral, when you are present to the present moment that flows during your meditation.

Consciously following the present moment is a form of tangible experience of impermanence.

But in the second that is passing, for ever, there is a continuum, and time does not ever stop.

What is important is not what we have been, but what we have become, and even more what we will become.

Danis Bois

The roadmap for the coming week is an invitation to accept – in the sense of welcoming -everyday what arises in life, even if it does not match expectations, and to give more importance to what changes and progresses instead of focusing our attention on what does not change.