When You See That All Flows
When one sees with wisdom that "all conditioned things are impermanent," one turns away from suffering. This is the path to purity.
Do I remember that even this present suffering will, in the end, flow on and pass?
📝Reflection
"All things are impermanent" often sounds nihilistic. But this verse says that very insight is the way out of suffering. Why? We suffer mostly because the present state seems eternal — the despair that this pain, this sorrow will never end. Yet truly know that all things flow, and you see the present suffering is only one season, as winter is not forever. Impermanence brings the grief that good things too pass away, but at the same time the comfort that bad things also pass. There is no eternal suffering. If flowing like a river is the nature of life, our task is not to build a dam against the current but to trust the flow and pass through this moment. That it passes — that is the deepest comfort.
🌱Apply It Today
When a hard moment comes today, recall once: "this too is flowing; this too shall pass." Knowing it is not forever lets you breathe.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
