Does Anyone Know the words...?

[forest_pixie84]

What are the words to that Buddist law that means everything is always changing?

[Meagain]

A distinguished lawyer and a judge of the Supreme Court (UK), Christmas Humphries adopted Buddhism as a way of life at the age of eighteen and founded in 1926 the Buddhist Society, London. In 1945 he drafted the following Twelve principles of Buddhism for which he obtained the approval of all the Buddhist sects in Japan (including the Shin Sect which was not associated with Olcott's Common Platform) of the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand and leading Buddhists of Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China and Tibet

The Twelve Principles of Buddhism


Drafted by Christmas Humphreys, The Buddhist Society, London, in 1945
2. The first fact of existence is the law of change or impermanence. All that exists, from a mole to a mountain, from a thought to an empire, passes through the same cycle of existence - i.e., birth, growth, decay and death. Life alone is continous, ever seeking self-expression in new forms. 'Life is a bridge; therefore build no house on it.' Life is a process of flow, and he who clings to any for however splendid, will suffer by resisting the flow.

[forest_pixie84]

thanks man:)

[TrippinBTM]

I thought it was the Third of the 4 Noble Truths:

http://www.buddhanet.net/4noble.htm

[MelvnDoo]

not exactly what you were looking for, but still related to the impermanence of all things:

"pratitya samutpada" = interdependent co-arising

imagine a spider´s web with jewels all over it. in each jewel, you can see the reflection of all the other jewels. so if one jewel changes, it will be reflected in all of the others. all things are THAT interconnected.

so that´s why NOTHING is permanent, because if one thing can change, so can anything and everything else!

[Sage-Phoenix]

The Buddhist term for the impermanence (as defined in Megain's post) is anicca.

At least that's what they told me when I studied buddhism in college.

[darrellkitchen]

Impermanent

[loveflower]

This is a great thread, it reminded me that we are all interconnected and that through death is life, it is constantly flowing and to "not build a bridge on it".. I tend to forget that

[TrippinBTM]

This is a great thread, it reminded me that we are all interconnected and that through death is life, it is constantly flowing and to "not build a bridge on it".. I tend to forget that
You mean... "The world is a bridge, pass over it, but build no house upon it."