Navigating Change with Grace
How turning towards darkness can help us be courageous
Impermanence
Impermanence in Buddhism (Pali, anicca; Sanskrit, anitya) is one of the Buddha’s three marks of existence, or conditions that describe reality. The Buddha recognized that everything within samsara (the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth) is impermanent or ever-changing, and misunderstanding this truth is the root of our suffering.
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk, Teachings
Strategies for Clear Insight
A teaching on impermanence from a founder of the Thai forest tradition
3 Basic Laws of Nature That Can’t Be Ignored
A lama in the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions provides a timeless teaching on the relationship between the three characteristics of existence and karma.
The End of Time
A writer invokes the Hindu sage Vyāsa in a meditation on old age.
The Rise and Fall of the Dharma
Scholar Donald S. Lopez Jr. examines the history of Buddhism’s survival—and the predictions surrounding its eventual decline.
Everything Is Buddha
Using the teachings of Suzuki Roshi as her guide, Noelle Oxenhandler explores what it means for things to be more than just things.
It’s Worse than You Think
On the liberation of defeat
TeachingsMagazine | Practice, Teachings
The Nine Contemplations
How to meet the inevitability of death
Awakening to Impermanence
Reflecting on the fleeting nature of life and the path toward clarity
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