All Things Flow
All things change — this is the law of arising and passing. Where arising and passing come to rest, that stillness is true joy.
Wishing things would not change, am I trying to dam a flowing river with my hands?
📝Reflection
"All things change" — this single line sounds sad, yet it is also the greatest comfort. It is exactly the insight of Heraclitus: "you cannot step into the same river twice." Good things change, but so do hard ones. Though present pain feels eternal, the law of impermanence carries even that away. The "stillness" this verse points to is not a dead silence where change has stopped. It is the deep calm that comes when we flow with change instead of resisting it. Try to dam a river with your hands and only your hands hurt. When we accept the current and lay our body upon it, the river at last carries us along.
🌱Apply It Today
Picture one thing you grip, wishing it would never change, and imagine once: "what if I let it flow?" Opening the damming hand is the start of calm.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
