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How to Embrace Impermanence to Experience the Joy of Life

“Thoughts are like passing clouds, gracefully reminding us of the ever-changing nature of our existence. Embracing this constant impermanence can lead to a deeper understanding of life.”

Sometimes, thoughts come and go like clouds passing in the sky. They are transient, always staying for a short time. This impermanence can be liberating, especially when negative thoughts arise. It reminds us that we’re not bound to any thought; we’re free to let them pass. We think something, and then another thought comes, leaving the previous one useless.

But we often give so much attention that we are unaware or attentive enough to look for it as just an observer. When we are in some state of mind, such as fear, we hold the thoughts from which we get fear, or if we are angry by some thought, we hold its story and make a shore on our mind harbour. During those particular moments or events, our intense thoughts lead us to believe something is a fact, and we mix assumptions and take it personally. 

However, those thoughts are no different from those throughout the day. We start juggling between that one thought and bring it to the level of thinking only as the only essential thing‌. We hold an idea because it marks a territory that comes into our circle of influence by defining it as personal. Our mind’s deepest level is where we send it, and we never can quickly rid ourselves of it.

On the other hand, many thoughts come and go, and you never stick to them, even for a moment. Because it is never associated with you or you do not want to value it. You only value a thought that wouldn’t hurt your ego. 

Understanding this can empower you to challenge your ego-driven thoughts. It’s not about ego satisfaction; it’s about maintaining your self-awareness and control. The opinion does not bother you in a situation you feel or an argument with someone who says you don’t like it. The other person may assume or say something ignorantly or with half-baked information. 

This also happens when another person believes your action does not meet the general belief or the way it should be in normal circumstances. It’s a call for self-reflection, a moment to consider your actions and beliefs. People believe that if a hundred or thousand people follow one cultural, ritual, or process of something, they assume that this is the only and correct way. However, following some notion or belief, the crowd may be logical, but it may be just following some traditions or dogmas. 

The other person’s way of doing something might come from understanding from the experiences. Those experiences are worldly, but from deep inside that hits your existence, they drive as an existential experience. But ‌don’t forget or discriminate against it by entirely checking it. It comes from your ego sense. For ego to qualify for the event, it makes that big fat ego win. But we forget that ego win is not our win; it’s not your consciousness win. So, always have a check, a litmus test, in line with whether it comes from ego, ignorance, or the deepest level of consciousness. 

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