Things are never what they appear to be. Life is not in your control. Remembering this, you undermine, or deconstruct, or release, the false confidence of mastery
Understanding impermanence means you do not invest yourself too strongly in situations but allow the situation to evolve. Sometimes holding back is very important. If you know that situations are impermanent, your faith in that means when bad times come, you don’t worry about them because they will not last for ever; when good times come, you don’t become too excited because you know they also will pass
Keeping the mind relaxed and even, you can start to experience the one-taste of all phenomena, the taste of emptiness. However they arise, they are just like reflections in the mirror
- James Low
