The impermanence of life period
What is meant by
the impermanence of life period? As we all know in this modern world there are
laws of the indestructibility of matter and of the conservation of energy.
Buddhism acknowledges all these laws in this noumenal world. It is impossible
also that there should exist a thing which does not change. In the “stanzas of
the Law” Buddha says the following sayings:
That which seems
everlasting, will perish. That which is high will be laid low. Where meeting is
parting shall be. Where birth is death will come.
There is more of
less similar stanza in the Chinese which goes like this, “Not in the sky
neither in the depths of the ocean nor having entered the caverns of the
mountain, nay, such a place is not to be found in the world where a man might
dwell without being overpowered by death.According to Buddhism we keep on changing from birth to old age and death the
end of life is one of the prime miseries.
Idealist school of
Buddhist Philosophy says, “All things are produced by the combination of causes
and conditions and have no independent noumenon of their own. The body of a
living being consists of the combinations of the four great elements, earth,
water, fire and air; and when this combination is resolved into the four
component elements dissolution ensues. This is called the impermanence of a
composite entity.
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