“All conditioned things are impermanent” — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
This is a genuine Buddha quote. It’s from the Dhammapada, verse 277.
Fake Buddha Quotes
"Nope, I didn't say that." — The Buddha
“All conditioned things are impermanent” — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
This is a genuine Buddha quote. It’s from the Dhammapada, verse 277.
What are “conditioned things”? Are they all things fashoned with an ego (mind)?
“Conditioned things” is a rendering of saṅkhārā, which is a difficult term to translate, but you’re pretty close, I think. To say that things (and we’re especially although not exclusively talking about mental states when we talk about “things”) are conditioned means that things don’t exist in and of themselves. They arise out of other factors and conditions. Because those factors and conditions are subject to change, any experience you care to point to is not permanent.
One import of this is that there’s no possibility of finding a sense of peace or happiness by arranging things so that we can experience only pleasure and not pain. We can try to so arrange things, but since the supports for our pain-free pleasure-only state are unstable, it can’t last.
So how do we find peace or happiness? We accept that experiences change. So unpleasant experiences come and go, and we don’t fight them. Pleasant experiences come and go, and we don’t try to hold onto them or worry about their passing.
going completely off topic again, in the “do people under 40 know what they are missing if they don’t have to read stuff twice” department. At first glance I thought it said “Air conditioning” Great quote in spite of my tortured processing abilities.