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PICTURE FRAMES
A Living Experience
The Buddha’s
SERMON ON CONSTANT CHANGE
The untrained mind is a web of confusion like a flywheel
spinning out thoughts, emotions, images, stories, likes, dislikes
and reactions to it all. There is a ceaseless movement. Seeing
this is the first insights in meditation practice. It is called “seeing
the waterfall,” experiencing the evanescent nature of mind. Its
constant changes are like the weather; today it rains, tonight
it snows, earlier the sun was out. It is muddy in the spring, and
then the summer heat appears. In the fall the winds arise and the
leaves go; in winter the ice forms.
We’re like that; we’re part of nature.
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