All Conditioned Things Are Bound to Pass

📝Reflection

This verse sounds sad, yet the longer you turn it over, the lighter the mind grows. That all things change means good things pass — but also that bad things do not stay. The present suffering, too, is a formed thing and will scatter someday. One great reason we suffer is that we try to hold the changing as if it were changeless, like blocking a flowing river with our hands. Impermanence is not a threat but a kindly suggestion to loosen our grip. Knowing that all things pass, we savor good moments more and despair less in hard ones.