Impermanence
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A while ago, I asked Google Gemini (AI) about the easiest way to grasp Buddhism’s Three Marks of Existence. The answer started well, ‘a way of looking at reality exactly as it is, without illusions’, and then all seemed to go downhill, and rapidly. Perhaps I had hoped for some deep and profound insight into…
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Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh paraphrased the Five Remembrances (found in the Upajjhatthana Sutta) like this: On a first reading, the Five Remembrances can seem very bleak statements that describe unavoidable human suffering. They certainly challenge our tendency to live in denial of ageing and death. We don’t feel very comfortable facing our own…
