11: Impermanence
Session 11 — Impermanence (7.29.26 - LIVE)
A session that returns to impermanence — we forget that the flowers we like will fall, and we forget that the weeds we don't like will grow. Clinging to what is pleasant because we've forgotten it won't last, pushing away what is unpleasant because we've forgotten it won't last either — this is where most unnecessary suffering lives. Not in the experience itself, but in the forgetting.
The session also revisits personality through the lens of impermanence. The persona — the theatrical mask, the role being played — is itself impermanent. The narrator insisting I'm the kind of person who is assembling evidence from a past that has already dissolved and projecting it onto a future that hasn't arrived. The resume is real. The typecast isn't.
This converges on the life grid: a human life mapped in weeks across ninety years. The boxes are finite. None of the future ones are guaranteed. And the quality of each one is determined not by what happens in it but by how present you are for it — which is to say, by whether you remember, in that moment, that it will pass. Attention is the currency of a life, and impermanence is what makes how you spend it matter.