Contemplating impermanence (live)

(Buddhist Insights) Ven. Sumitta (Lankarama Buddhist Vihara, La Puente, Los Angeles and University of the West), Ven. Los Angeles Sanathavihari, and a resident monk at Empty Cloud Monastery discuss how everything is in radical flux (anicca, impermanence, constantly altering, hurtling toward destruction). This is one of the Three Marks of all states of existence and one of the truths that prompt us to find an escape from this round of rebirth, suffering, and redeath. When we contemplate how things are constantly faltering, failing us, and impersonal, it becomes possible to let go and be free in the ultimate sense of realizing the beautiful truth of liberation (nirvana).

• Rick Thorn: ​When I first had direct experience of impermanence in daily life, every solid thing seemed to be made out of dry sand...
• Daniel Sullivan ​: How does impermanence relate to non-self?
• Rick Thorn ​: ...which was constantly slipping and sliding through the fingers of the open hand holding the object.
• Rick Thorn ​: Thank you, Bhante, for offering your reflections. 🙏🙏🙏
• Angela Gizzi ​: Where were you in Virginia, Bhante? :)
• No Identity ​: Is there a correlation between impermanence and sunyata [emptiness]? 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
• Pattanaporn Sanguanwong ​: Good evening, venerables. Can you talk about Idappaccayatā relate to impermanence. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
• Hemantha Ramanayake ​: 🙏🙏🙏
• Jonathan Rodes: Is there merit
• No Identity ​: If everything is empty of inherent existence, is the Dhamma ultimately empty or is this a valid question?
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• Yasasvi Wijewantha ​: Thank you, Venerables, for sharing the Dhamma 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
• Geetha Gnana: ​🙏🙏🙏
• Rick Thorn ​: Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu 🙏🙏🙏
• Roy D'Souza: ​🙏
• Geetha Gnana ​: Sharuk Khan was acting in the movie, Bhante 😊
• Kumu ​: 🙏🙏🙏