Buddhism is so deep in a good way. Its hard to explain but so simple. We should happy with nothing.

I believe it’s good to be happy even grateful for what you have. It’s just being able to detach from those things. Those things dont define you, your life or even happiness.

Patrul Rinpoche wrote that the first concept one should meditate on is impermanence and the second is death. An easy way for me to start that is in my practice of following the breath remembering the outbreath is an indicator of the impermanence of the breath. Repetition of the concept is essential to its integration.

It's not just so in Buddhism, it's the case in EVERYTHING - ❤

Wow ! The commenter's are all so enlightened. At least the 6 that I've read. I'm impressed.

Letting go is THE hardest thing to do 🙂

Its easy to see how a belief in permanence is hard to give up: any person who wakes up in the same home, with family, goes to the same job and back, pays the same predictable bills each month, observing the same 4 seasons pass by and start anew...... I dunno, put into practice as many of the teachings as possible I think. The older i get, the more impermanence i've seen. And seeing is believing. A non-violent view, treating all humans as brothers and sisters in Humanity, true kindness and helping those in distress is Something i HAVE TO get behind, as human nature in general often leaves alot to be desired. These teachings represent SOME kind of progress....RM

The eternal truth of the world is impermanence! Everything is bound to decay! -නමෝ බුද්ධාය -

Impermanence (Anithya) is not about change in the physical body or physical things. Impermanence is about the changes in the perception. Buddha taught impermanence as “perception is conditioned by cause and effect”. For example, perception of eye is conditioned by so many factors, one factor is sharpness of eye sight. We see everything relative to the limitation of eye sight(perception). If our eyes are sharp as a microscope we will see world completely different. Therefor, nothing we see is true, all the images we see conditioned by so many factors. They are just a mirage. This the meaning of impermanence. We believe what we see is true and get attached to it. That cause suffering. If wisdom arise at any moment to see the reality of perception, attachment won’t arise to it and it will stop creation of all the thoughts, hopes and disappointment cause around what we perceive. That is end of suffering, Nirvana.

A good explanation

Third Noble Truth is the permanent end to suffering. We are taught that we cannot find the Third Truth, while still clinging to that which is impermanent, especially including our own impermanent identity. To stop clinging is impossible, unless we have first have faith, trust, and conviction in the Third Truth as mediated to us by scriptures, by the contagious example of our teachers, and eventually by our own deep intuition. I am Hindu, but I can understand this, because Shakyamuni significantly influenced Hinduism. Shakyamuni talks about the five skhandas and dependent origination. If we Hindus also appreciate the analytic process that is necessary to recognize radical impermanence, at least partly it is due to Shakyamuni's enduring effect on Hindu culture. Most Hindus are theists. I am theist, but not in a way that dismisses what the Buddha said. It would be foolish to ignore the advice of such a person. Your video that discusses Theravada and Mahayana leaves the impression that a Buddha has a scope of operation far beyond that of an arhat. In fact, the Mahayana sometimes seems cosmological in its vision of Buddha-nature. I am not sure, because I never studied that far; but some of the Mahayana may correlate partially with advaita/monist Hindu views of the cosmological divine.

A nice explanation.

I think I’m getting it. We constantly cling to the ideal of permanence instead of allowing things to work out without attachments. Like birth death is a natural thing and allowing it to be will help us embrace the suffering of death.

Not all things are impermanent in Buddhism. Only the compounded phenomena. There are lots of phenomena not in a flux of change. Even the vaibhashika and sautrantika schools posit permanent phenomena.

Hi Alan, thanks for this informative video, and all of your other videos - they have been really useful for my studies surrounding Buddhism! I had a question about anicca - if everything is impermanent, surely that applies to the Dharma and all of the Buddhist principles too? Does anicca mean that the Buddhist theory is also impernanent?

Omg it's really truth

Their are some things you want to lose.

Even impermanence is temporary!

Alan I don't like you speaking about how a Westerners feel about 'impermanence' !!! It's very Un-Buddhist approach !!!!