The Buddha · Theology

Everything Flows

Beneath all the Buddha’s teachings lies a single vision: that everything, without exception, is impermanent - arising and passing in an unbroken flow. To see this clearly, he taught, is to stop fighting reality and to find peace within the flux.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that the Buddha made impermanence the bedrock of his teaching. Reconstruct the link between impermanence, suffering, and non-self (the ‘three marks’), and explain why grasping impermanence is liberating, in your own words.

Leads to Heraclitus.

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