Change is a central feature of life. It can be exhilarating, frightening, exhausting, or relieving. It can spark sadness or happiness, resistance or grasping. Some spiritual traditions equate the world of impermanence with suffering. For these, the solution to suffering is to transcend the world of impermanence.
But suffering is not ingrained in the world of impermanence nor is it the result. Suffering comes about when we cling. When clinging disappears, impermanence no longer seems to bring about suffering.
It is possible to find ease and grace in the world of change. We see old age, sickness and death. We notice that things change. The seasons change, society changes, our emotions change, and the weather changes. Seeing that change is inevitable helps us to let go of clinging to how things are or our resistance to change.
It is possible to trust the mind of non-clinging and then find our liberation within the world of impermanence.
And sometimes recognizing that we are all equal and subject to aging, sickness, and death is the basis for compassion.
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