Impermanence (anicca)
Indeterminate qualities / Characteristics of existence / Impermanence 
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Part of key topic The Human Dillema
Alternative translations: Inconstancy
Glosses: Arising and ceasing, Uncertainty, Mai nae Thai
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Developing Skill in Reflective Meditation, Session 1 – Dec. 1, 2019

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2. “Can one bring up a theme to gain deeper understanding?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Insight meditation] [Recollection] // [Relinquishment] [Cause of Suffering] [Dependent origination] [Conditionality] [Not-self] [Long-term practice]

Sutta: SN 56.11.21: Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: “Whatever is of the nature to arise is of the nature to cease.” [Impermanence]


Readings from The Island, Session 44 – Mar. 12, 2025

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5. “In the satipaṭṭhāna, would it be encouraged to observe skin as my skin, his skin, her skin—the same … So we look that they are not different in me and other people … If you contemplate and sit with feelings and emotions, anybody where it manifests it’s the same. So it becomes not my opinion and your opinion, but a field of opinions and you don’t have preference for the one you expressed … Would this be a suitable object of meditation?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Unattractiveness] [Not-self] [Feeling] [Emotion] [Views] // [Mindfulness of mind] [Mindfulness of dhammas] [Impermanence]

Sutta: MN 10.34: Mindfulness of citta; MN 10.36: Mindfulness of dhammas.

Sutta: MN 118.21: Using the breath to cultivate wisdom. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Impermanence] [Discernment] [Insight meditation]