अनित्य - Impermanence

1. A story of two brothers and a diamond ring: How the understanding of the impermanence i.e. "This will also change...." made one brother to live happy life whereas the elder lived in misery despite of owning huge sum of wealth. 

2. Analogies for Impermanence: S.N. Goenka Illustraste concept of impermanence with numbers of examples as follows:

• Analogy of candle light
• Analogy of Electric bulb
• Analogy of river and the person dipping in the river. 

3a. Two ways of understanding 'Impermanence' that makes your life happy: Megan Bruneau 

• In the time of loss: Every thing has begining and end. Things comes and goes. Hence, there is nothing to be attached. In terms of Health, wealth, relationship, things are ever changing. 
• In the time of gain: In the time of great success or favorable circumstances, this will reminds you 'This too shall go". 

3b. "It will Pass"

4. Mingyur Rinpoche >

• The main cause of Suffering > is this inablity to match perception and reality >> causing insecurity, lonliness and unsatisfactoriness. 
• Percieving and Reality does not match 
• We see something solid and rigid, in reality it is not. 
• Get rid of Suffereing = No grasping after knowing the reality. 

"impermanence, helps to make our mind less rigid and fixed as we realize that everything in the world is always changing."

5. Tara Brach - Impermanence: Awakening Through Insecurity (Part 1) 05/13/2015

• A self centered prince made to experience the nature reality: Offering a horse and lost in the woods. Got engaged with the family in woods, get married and have childrens. In one instance, both the childrens fell down in pond and eaten by a tiger. Later, his beautiful wife and horse also fell  down in the river. 
• Impermanence: 
• Insecurity
• uncertainty
• brievity of life > hence importance of life. 
• Love and Awareness are only to things that we need to cultivate. 
• Accepting the reality (Dhamma, nature, the law) Vs. Ressistance (Struggle/Holding on)
• Core source of anxiety > Ressistance 
• Way of leberation > 
• Letting go, - We generally over estimate our domain of control. Hence we suffer. 
• Taking hands off the control, 
• open to river of change, 
• Open to vulnerability. 

6. Ilustrations for Impermanence

Everything is impermanent, Life is Animation by Stamp

7. Bhante Gunaratana talks about the theme of impermanence. Produced by Vipassana Meditation Society in Brasilia - DF, Brazil.
March 2012.

Key Points: 

1. Truth of impermanence: Everything is permanently impermanent. 
2. You cannot change law hence you need to go along with it: learn to live with impermanence, Learn to go along with it. When you try to fight with it or go against with it - anxiety arise
3. Is impermanence is suffering ? Suffering exist not becuase of impermanence but it is becuase of attachement to impermenent thing. 
4. Unreliability and uncertainty: Impermanence never give prior notice. - Hence very unreliable.
5. Leaning on sth: When we lean on something we feel secure. But in reality, that is the insecurity. 
6. Is truth is bitter: There is saying that truth is bitter but in fact acknowledging the truth is the best taste. The real bliss.  

8 Why do we suffer ? because we cling. 

Three intoxicant that prevent use to realize impermanence: 

1. Pride of Youth
2. Pride of Well Being
3. Pride of Life

9. The True Nature of Human Existence