But with each year of impermanence his identity of himself fell on its own weight like a black hole and he did not know who he was.
His ideas and feelings were shifting toward impermanence with each letter he received from Noppawan Piggy.
It was an instrument for illustrating his impermanence so that he might accept that this was the natural course of all things even if human intellect knew that nature was vile and that this impermanence should be otherwise.
Even now his basket-work home is never built on dry land, if water can be found wherein to plant the supporting poles of the fragile dwellings, suggesting the impermanence of a nomadic race.
I took several days to discover this, but the first impression of impermanence was truer than I knew.
This is manifested by the impermanence of human beings.
There was a rich Brahman, well advanced in years, who, unmindful of the impermanence of earthly things and anticipating a long life, had built himself a large house.
The first postulate of the system is that impermanence is sorrow.
In fact sa.nkhâra stands for almost anything of which impermanence could be predicated.
Of these two again the Impermanence has become an Indian rather than a Buddhist idea, and we are to a certain extent familiar with it also in the West.
Impermanence is the nature of all that exists, constant change and restlessness its conditions; unfixed, unprofitable, without the marks of long endurance.
A man born in the world, by proper thought comes to delight in goodness, he recognizes the impermanence of wealth and beauty, and looks upon religion as his best ornament.
But why does not this conviction of impermanence lead to the simpler conclusion that the end of physical life is the end of all life?
The monk fixes his attention on a corpse in some horrible stage of decay and thus concentrates his mind on the impermanence of all things.
It is not really consistent with any doctrine of metempsychosis or with Buddhist teaching as to the impermanence of the Ego.
But the desire for release and deliverance is based less on a contemplation of the woes of life than on a profound sense of its impermanence and instability[134].
Impermanence is the very essence of joy--the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.
She was certain that it was not lasting, that, at the best, it could be of very brief duration, and this fact of impermanence was the very essence of its charm, like life itself.
But his most monotonous feature is the mechanical recurrence of certain reflections about the impermanence of human things, as opposed to the immutability of Nature.
The obsession of impermanence has often been sublimated into great mystic poetry.
