Who here has not accepted the fact that we live in a temporal reality? Which means we are transient, we are ephemeral, we are impermanent. In this life bounded by time, we grow attachment to things, people, emotions, places. We have emotional cords that are not cut when things are over. One of the conditions in being bound by time, is that we are also bound by entropy. Even as we age, wrinkle, and dissipate, our attachments grow stronger, like invisible bonds because we think a thing; we desire to possess a thing; we desire to BE something or someone we are not.
Who here does not accept that to move on, we must first lose what we thought we held dear? In fact, that is the essence of the death of the physical body.
This truth is found in nature all around us - as transformation takes place, the chrysalis is abandoned. Look at the crumbling ruins of ancient cities that once were strong in power and chi essence. In fact, those still remaining today were the strongest of all in their time of being, which is why they have held on so long in their enduring wrack and ruin.
1. tem|por¦al|ity
[ˌtɛmpəˈralɪti]
NOUN
1. the state of existing within or having some relationship with time.
"like spatial position, temporality is an intrinsic property of the object"
synonyms: impermanence · temporality · transience · ephemerality ·
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"This too shall pass" is originally a Persian adage reflecting on the evanescence, or ephemerality, of the human condition. The phrase seems to have originated in the writings of the medieval Persian Sufi poets, and is often attached to a fable of a great king who is humbled by the simple words.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass
This Too Will Pass | by Ajahn Brahm | 18-05-2012
Stupas: enduring beauty from a bygone and forgotten culture.
An object my baby girl desired so much, but now forgotten.
The old and the young only have a passing reference to each other.
How long will this last?
Please share your own pictures and thoughts about what is ephemeral, temporal, and impermanent, or something you may wish to hold on to, but you know Sufi poets were right in the long run.
My strong, gut feeling and intuition, in this time of transition and transformation that we experience now, is that if we can let go of all the little and big attachments we think are so necessary to our continuing existence we will learn the sublime mastery of living in the now – what has been termed the “New Earth”, but is easier to understand as new way of being.
Who here does not accept that to move on, we must first lose what we thought we held dear? In fact, that is the essence of the death of the physical body.
This truth is found in nature all around us - as transformation takes place, the chrysalis is abandoned. Look at the crumbling ruins of ancient cities that once were strong in power and chi essence. In fact, those still remaining today were the strongest of all in their time of being, which is why they have held on so long in their enduring wrack and ruin.
1. tem|por¦al|ity
[ˌtɛmpəˈralɪti]
NOUN
1. the state of existing within or having some relationship with time.
"like spatial position, temporality is an intrinsic property of the object"
synonyms: impermanence · temporality · transience · ephemerality ·
https://www.bing.com/search?q=temporality&src=IE-TopResult&FORM=IETR02&conversationid=8D0D7CA741DA4A5D9CEC4A7C3CE9F268&pc=EUPP_
"This too shall pass" is originally a Persian adage reflecting on the evanescence, or ephemerality, of the human condition. The phrase seems to have originated in the writings of the medieval Persian Sufi poets, and is often attached to a fable of a great king who is humbled by the simple words.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass
This Too Will Pass | by Ajahn Brahm | 18-05-2012
Stupas: enduring beauty from a bygone and forgotten culture.
An object my baby girl desired so much, but now forgotten.
The old and the young only have a passing reference to each other.
How long will this last?
Please share your own pictures and thoughts about what is ephemeral, temporal, and impermanent, or something you may wish to hold on to, but you know Sufi poets were right in the long run.
My strong, gut feeling and intuition, in this time of transition and transformation that we experience now, is that if we can let go of all the little and big attachments we think are so necessary to our continuing existence we will learn the sublime mastery of living in the now – what has been termed the “New Earth”, but is easier to understand as new way of being.
