The Three Characteristics: Change
by Lisa Goddard
This talk is about Anicca and it’s usually translated into English as impermanence. It's not unique to Buddhism, the emphasis on impermanence. It was the Greek philosopher Heraclitus who said, “You can't step in the same river twice”, which is a teaching about how this life that we live is a stream of change, always changing. Change can bring with it a sense of loss and experiences of loss. That's what often comes up first when we think of impermanence. We lose what we cherish, the people that we love, the things that we built up and created. That's sooner or later many things are lost and change. Part of this teaching on the three characteristics is the cultivation of their opposites. So we cultivate stability, as the opposite of impermanence.
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