#transitoriness

[an-nae]

A little photo project I did a few months ago. I took the photos on a local graveyard and transitoriness was the theme I had in my mind. I hope you like it :)

Spring 2024

📷 Praktica BX20S

[rakshakaur]

'Go ahead, put anything.'

Something that took me ages to figure out is, that things appear to be permanent, when they are bound to crumble and change, shape-shift into a different one when you least expect it.

Don't blink too much, for when you do, you give the serendipity a chance to act, or you fall prey of transitoriness... either way, keep the things you love the most in your pocket, in your heart; you don't know when you'll be forced to start walking until you find a new place to establish your home.

[kerryrawlinson]

Journeys;  Yucca Memories

Deeply grateful to @MalarkeyBooks and @DeMistyB for providing resurrection space for these two poems, published in Section 8 Magazine in 2016 and now, sadly, defunct. They were both written on a trip back through Zambia in 2012...

[zwangsrealitaet-blog]

[thismaybehappiness]

“What I believe, what I value most, is transitoriness.

But is not transitoriness — the perishableness of life — something very sad? No! It is the very soul of existence. It imparts value, dignity, interest to life. Transitoriness creates time — and “time is the essence.” Potentially at least, time is the supreme, most useful gift.

Time is related to — yes, identical with — everything creative and active, with every progress toward a higher goal. Without transitoriness, without beginning or end, birth or death, there is no time, either. Timelessness — in the sense of time never ending, never beginning — is a stagnant nothing. It is absolutely uninteresting.”

Thomas Mann (via brainpickings)

[somebodysittingthereallthetime]

A lesson in everyday absurdity

today we got a new door, including a new frame, it was so surreal to watch how easy it is to remove the border of our home which i just realized i always subconsciously considered some kind of magical barrier.

[somebodysittingthereallthetime]

The pali word is dukkha and it is the central word of four noble truths of the Buddha's teachings. It's often translated as suffering, but it's not a very accurate translation, because as we know there are many things in life that are pleasant, that are enjoyable, and we don't experience as suffering. The deeper meaning of the word dukkha is that things ultimately are unsatisfying, are unreliable precisely because they are impermanent. Some of these things are pleasant, some are unpleasant but all or equally dukkha in the sense of not being capable of giving us a lasting satisfaction. In that way of understanding it becomes much more universal, it can begin to encompass all of our experience in this truth of dukkha which is very related to the truth of impermanence.

Joseph Goldstein (in Sam Harris’s podcast, this part is at about 57 minutes)

[somebodysittingthereallthetime]

A lesson in aesthetics

Some time ago i found a place where, at night, street lights and the branches of a tree form something of abstract beauty and i was reminded of everything i love in paintings and nature and i was just struck by the beauty and i went home smiling. The next day i went back, and i knew it looked the same but it just didn’t ... work. At all. I pretty much only expected to see something pretty, but it just wasn’t even that. I had in mind to to write a post about this, so i went back today. The street lights weren’t working. I went home laughing.