11-19-2023 Stephen Gleich: Everything Changes

Reality is characterised by impermanence. It is a mark of the Buddhist view that everything changes. We habitually grasp or push or ignore. These attitudes can be seen as strategies to hold on - to something, anything - and to protect the comforting fiction of our solid and unchanging selves. This mark of impermanence can guide us in our path and our practice. Is our meditation supposed to put us into a desirable, unchanging state of mind? Or is it an opportunity to let go into the...