Thanks for dropping by and joining us. This is another of the weekly

Darmapunks New York Zoom classes and we also have on Sundays roughly once a month at Center Yoga in New York in person

gatherings and the next one will be the first Sunday of November the 6th.

Links to all the information on the Darmapunks NYC.com website and as well as on the Facebook pages.

Hopefully if you're in the New York City region and you want to have a sense of community you can stop by and join us.

So yeah, welcome and just reminding that every morning at 8 a.m. Kathy does the daily pause meditation,

which can all the information if you'd like to join is on the darmapunks NYC.com website too.

I am a Buddhist pastor and I don't charge for anything I do everything is provided entirely by your support.

So if you'd like to help keep us my work going, they then know is

Darmapunks with an X NYC and the PayPal button.

And Patreon site is on the website. So thanks for that. So tonight we're going to be talking about impermanence,

probably the foundation of the Buddhist teachings, the darma.

It's the single observation from which pretty much all other insights blossomed and the awareness of change as a constant in life pretty much was the undercurrent of so many of the

Buddha's observations that eventually led to a very distinctive spiritual practice.

Now at around the same time of the Buddha some 2,500 years ago a Greek philosopher Heraclitus too was very

aware of the omnipresent nature of ongoing change in all phenomena and he famously said no man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river,

nor is it the same man. The idea that if you look at the river, it might look like the same river, but if you actually pay attention to it, sometimes it's clear, sometimes it's filled with leaves and grass, sometimes it's filled with leaves and grass sometimes it's muddy sometimes it's got

lots of currents in it and sometimes it might be very still.

So the river is always changing and so to are we even in very small increments of time.

Our bodies are shifting the way we move the way who even our sense of who we are is changing. So Anicha was the name of the

Buddhist teaching or the word that was used for impermanence.

And the basic, the basic foundational observation was the idea that all phenomena, especially phenomena that's made up of smaller parts, much like human beings, other people, other beings, all objects that we encounter,

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