Posted by kalyb on June 27, 2003, at 10:51:12
In reply to Re: How can something be safe if it's not permanent? » Dinah, posted by Penny on June 27, 2003, at 10:29:13
I'm ruminating on this....
dimly recalling something about Buddhist concept that nothing is permanent, everything changes. It is the nature of all things to change.
If this is so, then Buddhists must have another way of believing and trusting in things. Perhaps the secret is not to trust external, but to trust yourself as well as accepting that everything must change? Perhaps the trust must come from inside.
I don't know the answer to this one, but I do know that we seem to have an inner desire to make things permanent or to have things that do not change around us.
Yet, if the nature of all things is to change, the paradox created by this wish must cause a great deal of disturbance. We are encouraged to be permanent, reliable; to buy and choose permanent things like houses - monetary values are based on permanence. I don't know how this paradox can be raltionalised....
musingly,
Kalyb xx
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