That one person in 42 percent of new marriages each year has already been divorced reflects impermanency.
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No one understands the paradigm of impermanency better than Tom Ford, whose career at Gucci was abruptly shortened.
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Under prohibition, the flossiest bars didn't cost much to build, because the management realized there was some threat of impermanency.
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In contrast with the violence of British settlement, the Macassan encounters were generally amicable, probably because their impermanency was seen as less threatening.
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Dumoulin 82, 85 According to Dōgen: > Therefore, the very impermanency of grass and tree, thicket and forest is > the Buddha nature. The very impermanency of men and things, body and mind, > is the Buddha nature. Nature and lands, mountains and rivers, are > impermanent because they are the Buddha nature. Supreme and complete > enlightenment, because it is impermanent, is the Buddha nature.
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You told me once your father was a Don Juan, that it was his faithlessness which had affected your childhood, giving you a feeling of impermanency.
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I think a lot of us can look back and think that a lot of it is full of impermanency and things that haven't added up to anything really.
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The very impermanency of men and things, body and mind, > is the Buddha nature. Nature and lands, mountains and rivers, are > impermanent because they are the Buddha nature. Supreme and complete > enlightenment, because it is impermanent, is the Buddha nature.Dumoulin, > Heinrich.
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The founder of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism, Dōgen Zenji, held that Buddha- nature (busshō 佛性) was simply the true nature of reality and Being. This true nature was just impermanence, becoming and 'vast emptiness'. Because he saw the whole universe as an expression of Buddha-nature, he held that even grass and trees are Buddha nature. > Therefore, the very impermanency of grass and tree, thicket and forest is > the Buddha nature.
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