Understanding Impermanence: The Path to Infinite Love

Impermanence teaches that clinging to attachments leads to suffering, while renunciation opens the path to infinite love.

### Embracing Impermanence: The Path to Infinite Love
* 🌊 One of the core teachings in Buddhism is the concept of **impermanence**, which emphasizes that **reality is constantly changing** and **nothing is permanent**.
* 🔄 Attempting to cling to or freeze moments in life leads to suffering, as **true happiness cannot be found in anything transient**, such as relationships or physical appearances.
* 🧘 ‍♂️ Spiritual practices encourage the renunciation of attachments to the material world, as true wisdom lies in recognizing that **letting go opens the door to infinite love**.
* 🔥 The bliss derived from **infinite love** far surpasses any temporary pleasure, making fleeting experiences like **orgasms** seem **trivial** in comparison.
* 🌞 The infinite mind, or God, is seen as an **ever-dreaming entity** that cannot be confined to one dream, thus requiring a **fluid approach to existence** to explore all possibilities.
* 🎬 Just as one should not watch the same movie repeatedly to fully appreciate cinema, one should not cling to any single experience to **understand the vastness of love**.
* 💖 True love is defined as the realization that **all differences are imaginary**, transcending both **positive and negative emotions** to embrace the **totality of existence**.
* 🧠 Mastering the ability to **recognize and release biases** is essential for moving closer to this **profound understanding of love and reality**.

One of the features of reality, as the Buddhists like to teach, is impermanence. That means reality is fluid and nothing is permanent; it's always changing. In fact, the only permanent thing is impermanence itself. We might say a bit of a paradox there, but anyways, so...

forms, it's like you're in the middle of a sea of shifting forms all the time. So you see the problem is that if you get attached to something, if you develop a bias for one thing, you're effectively, like I said before, you're trying to freeze reality which

means you're trying to go against impermanence. But since everything is impermanent, that's a recipe for hell because your happiness is contingent on permanence and nothing in reality is permanent. Your children's not permanent, your dog is not permanent, your orgasm is not permanent.

Your life is not permanent, your youthful appearance is not permanent. You're not going to be pretty forever. So a lot of suffering comes from that because you've set yourself in opposition to reality. You've set yourself up in an adversarial relationship with the highest truth, which is one of which one

of the fastest of which is impermanence. All form is impermanent. So that's why this is so important in Buddhism. This is why spiritual teachers and ascetics have talked about surrendering attachments to the material world and not chasing pleasure or not getting too

tied down with your relationships and your family and all this sort of stuff. It's called they're called renunciants, renunciation. You renounce the world. Why? What are you renouncing? You're renouncing attachment. And why are you renouncing attachment? For infinite love.

Materialists think that all those ascetics and renouncings and monks, uh, they're so stupid. You know, renouncing all the material pleasures in life, like what? Why are they doing all that? They're doing it for some sort of stupid moralistic, puritanical reason.

Ideological reason. No, I mean some who are brainwashed are doing that, who are fundamentalists. Yeah, fundamentalist religious people do it for stupid reasons, but the true monk, the true yogi, the true renunciant, the true ascetic, he is renouncing all of that

because he's so intelligent and wise that he sees in renouncing that he's actually making the most counter-intuitive and intelligent move to access infinite love. So the joke is on you, the materialist who's clinging to all these things. So you think you're clinging or chasing

after orgasms? You think that having a hundred orgasms is ever gonna amount to something great? But it's not, because nothing is gonna match infinite love. The bliss you experience, the ecstasy you experience when you access infinite love, free of all biases and attachments, is

literally infinite. It, it, it makes the pleasure of an orgasm seem like a, like a candle flame next to the radiant sun. If an orgasm gives you the amount of light generated by a candle flame, infinite love that I'm talking about here, free of all bias

is like launching yourself into the middle of the sun. That's how much the pleasure differential is. But you're too scared to experience that much pleasure. It's literally so much pleasure it'll kill you, and you're too attached to the candle flame.

See, you're so, you're so empty, you're so spiritually bankrupt. It's so, it's like you're so blind that even to, to get a glimpse of a candle flame to you is so amazing. That's what you're, that's what your orgasm is.

And you, and you, you cling to that little candle flame and it's like, it's like the one thing that keeps you going. It's a little bit of candle flame because that's all the light you know how to get. Whereas the mystic and the ascetic and

the monk and the renunciate and the yogi, they go straight for the sun and you don't have the courage to do that. So you remain stuck with your candle flame at least for this life. Here's another explanation of why the impermanence

is operative here is that the infinite mind needs to be able to dream without getting attached to its dreams, otherwise it can't dream forever. And what infinite mind is, what God is. Here's a definition of God is that it's an infinite dreamer, an infinite dream.

How can you have an infinite dream if it's frozen? It has to be fluid to dream every possible dream. You need to keep dreaming more and more and more forever with no end. That means you can't get stuck on any one dream. It's sort of

like if you have one movie, one favorite movie, you can keep looping that movie over and over and over and over again forever. This would be a very shallow experience of what film is. If you want to explore the entire domain of film, what you have to do is

you have to keep playing new movies every single time, don't watch any movie twice. In fact, this is a rule I've adopted in my life: I don't watch any movie twice anymore. I used to in the past, I don't now. If I watch a movie, it's

only a new movie. I refuse to watch any movie I've already watched. Why is that? For this reason: because I want to maximize the diversity of movies that I watch. Replace movies with dreams, and you got it now. You understand how God works. All attachments are finite and

ultimately false because the highest truth is oneness and lack of difference. Again, I want to underscore: here's a technical definition of love. Love is the realization that all difference is imaginary. Write this down, tattoo it on your forehead. Probably don't take that last recommendation too

seriously, but it's that important. The realization that all difference is imaginary: that is the definition of love. Now, you might say, "But Leo, if I had no biases, then wouldn't everything be neutral?" No, everything would be love. I can't really explain this to you in

any logical way, um [Music], but it wouldn't be neutral. It would be love. Love is not neutral. Love is an embrace of everything. It's a metaphysical self-embrace. Now, also don't make the mistake of thinking that love necessarily means you're going to be feeling blissful all

the time, right? So love, metaphysical love that I'm talking about, transcends positive feelings and emotions. It can even include negative feelings and emotions, too. It's an absolute. It transcends everything. It transcends and includes and incorporates and embraces everything. That's what true love is.

so if your notion of absolute love doesn't include the pain of the feeling of torture then it's not true love so make sure that you don't just buy this sort of new age hippie version of love which is all positive rainbows

and butterflies that's not what I'm explaining to you here so I want you to mature to become a master at noticing bias with the hope that you're going to clear up your perception over time and let go and surrender various kinds of biases which will inch you closer to love

If You Let Go Of All Attachments, You Gain Infinite Love & The Entire Universe

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Buddhist teaching on impermanence: reality is fluid and constantly changing.

Attachment creates suffering by resisting impermanence.

Examples of impermanent things: children, pets, physical sensations, youth.

Suffering arises from opposing the reality of impermanence.

Buddhist practice of renunciation involves surrendering attachments.

Materialists misunderstand the reasons behind renunciation.

True renunciation is an intelligent path to infinite love.

Infinite love surpasses the pleasure of fleeting experiences.

The pleasure of infinite love is infinitely greater than sensory pleasure.

Fear of intense pleasure prevents people from seeking infinite love.

Impermanence allows the infinite mind to dream endlessly.

Attachment prevents experiencing the full range of dreams.

Analogy of watching movies: maximizing diversity vs. repetition.

The speaker's personal rule of not rewatching movies.

Love is the realization that all difference is imaginary.

Absence of bias doesn't mean neutrality; it means love.

Metaphysical love transcends positive and negative emotions.

True love encompasses all experiences, including pain.

Rejecting a naive, overly positive view of love.

Mastering the observation of bias to improve perception.