The universal impermanence

The universal impermanence is the impermanence of the self nature of the conditional things. Just as we have the impermanence of the life period so we have the impermanence of all the conditional things in the world. To realize that every living being will die sometime or other is very easy, but it is not so easy to feel that every living being is coming near to death and is continuing to change as the moments pass. This draws a final conclusion that all things are impermanenent, and it brings us to the doctrine of śūnyatā. writers imagine that the word śūnyatā is synonymous with what we understand by nothingness but it means “perpetual changes happening at every step in this phenomenal world.”

It is on the truth of the impermanence of the nature of all things that the possibility of all things depends. If things were not subject to continual change but were permanent and unchangeable, then the evolution of the human race and the development of living things would come to a dead stop. If the human beings had never died or changed but had continued always in the same state, what would the result have been? The progress of the human beings would ever stop.