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impermanence

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[ UK /ɪmpˈɜːmənəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations

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  • Theravada, which I practice, is what I know best, and it seems to me that two fundamental concepts within Theravada that really couldn’t be smoothly reconciled with Hinduism without just sort of practicing two different things at the same time are anatta, or not-self, and anicca, impermanence. Another religious assault on education - The Panda's Thumb
  • Our distorted view of reality is countered by thinking about aspects of wisdom, such as impermanence, the nature of suffering, selflessness, and the peace that is liberation. Shantideva's Compendium of Precepts (Laptu) and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Chod-j
  • The fundamental teaching of the Buddha is the four dharma seals: impermanence, no-self, suffering and nirvana, or peace.
  • It is time to apply the idea of impermanence instead of clinging to the notion of authenticity in a world best described by contamination and flux. Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from Beirut
  • But now the maidless four-room apartment took on, in spite of its cumbersome furnishings, a certain air of impermanence. Gigolo
  • He was convinced of the impermanence of his work.
  • One volume will be clad in terra cotta, conveying permanence and protection, while the other will be clad in glass, symbolizing a more subtle message of impermanence and fragility. Jewish American Museum « DESIGNPHILADELPHIA
  • His interest in gray is metaphysical as well as visual, for he cultivates ambiguity, indirection, and impermanence.
  • This is pain, he says in the First Noble Truth, where “this” refers to the entire phenomenal field of perception, to all worldly experience, which is characterized by impermanence and some form of suffering or duhkha duh, “bad”; kah, “hole.” Turning The Wheel
  • They wear ornaments of human bone, which remind us of death, impermanence and renunciation, and as adornment, they wear ashes from cremation grounds.
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