Foolish people try to cling and freeze reality into certain forms. Wise people make the counter-intuitive move. Remember my episode called "The Counterintuitive Nature of Life" where I talk about counterintuitive moves? Well, here's one more for you, add it to the

list. One of the biggest counterintuitive moves is to teach yourself to embrace impermanence rather than manipulating your way out of it. Except that the cost of life is death, not just at the individual biological level, I'm talking about all levels.

We're not just talking about biology here. We're talking about corporations, we're talking about religions, we're talking about ideas and languages. See how it goes way beyond biology? Evolution goes way beyond biology, which the biologists don't fully appreciate.

The cost of being a form is that eventually you must change form. And really, that's all that death is, it's just a change of form. You're changing into something else. You're not really dying, you're a shape-shifter, you're shifting

your shape. You've just deluded yourself by attaching yourself to this one shape that, "Oh my god, I'm going to die!" No, you're not going to die, you're just going to change your shape. Get over it. Immortality is impossible through attachment to form.

This needs to be understood. That's one consequence of impermanence and oneness. It will never be possible. So, I'm actually making a very scientific and empirical prediction here when I say this. What I'm saying is that even after a million years of technological

development from today, if mankind is still alive a million years from now, just imagine how much amazing technology we will have invented in a million years. There will still not be a method for immortality through technology, but immortality is possible by detachment from form.

And for that, you don't need to wait a million years or some fancy technology, some cryo freeze or some genetic modifications or some technological uploading of your brain into some computer or something like this. You don't need that. All you need to do

is you gotta surrender everything and realize that your true nature is that of a shape shifter. This impermanence brings with it good news and bad news. The bad news is that everything good that you gain in life will be lost, but the good news is

is that everything bad that befalls you will also be lost and will not be permanent, which means that this is your safety valve. See, God created a safety valve into every life and that safety valve is death. So if you're trapped in life and you're

suffering terribly and all this and there's no way to escape it at all, well, the consolation is that it won't last. It's impermanent. But of course, the flip side of that is if you're bored with some beautiful life, you're bored to be a

billionaire with a golden spoon in your mouth and you live in the best part of the world and everything is is perfect for you, well, that too won't last. One comes with the other. It's two sides of the same coin and that's a very important consequence.

I want you to remember here, this will help you when you're in very difficult times. Remember that hell and suffering cannot be a permanent state. All suffering must be temporary because it's limited. All suffering is finite. You cannot get stuck in unconsciousness forever.

Eventually, all beings must wake up and return to God and to awaken to themselves as God. And this is the safety valve, it's God's love and mercy. That's the intelligence of God's design of the entire universe, is that this safety valve has been built in.

The only problem is that you're terrified of this safety valve. You've labeled the safety valve the greatest evil. That's the irony of it. You've labeled God's infinite intelligence and love and mercy as the greatest evil, precisely because your mind is limited.

And can't see the full infinite perspective of the design. You're too self-biased. You're too attached to see it. And spirituality is about detaching yourself enough, gaining enough elevation and transcending enough self-bias to be able to see it.

And it's this which saves you. It's this which makes life beautiful and allows you to appreciate how amazing life is. Without this, life starts to seem evil and terrible and depressing and pointless and cruel. What we're talking about here in other terms is

attachment. Attachment creates suffering and disappointment. And what the Buddha taught was how to transcend attachment and to liberate yourself. But of course, not only did the Buddha teach this, but every great sage and mystic all around the world, from Christ to Mahavira to the Jews.

and the yogis in India all of them taught this to transcend suffering you need to realize that nothing in life should be clung to your key mistake is that you've mistaken yourself for a human being that's not what you really are that's a

false identity your true identity is that of an infinite shape-shifter so what you need to do if you want to live the good life is to realize and take back your identity as an infinite shape-shifter see when a shape-shifter clings to one

shape or one form it suffers precisely because it's untrue to its identity to what it is see you're like a TV screen that got stuck on one image and that's why you suffer and the point of our work here is to get

you unstuck to get you to surrender your human identity to realize that your human identity it's there but it's temporary it will be lost you cannot preserve it no matter how much you want to so you have to let it go and one thing you should have noticed

already in your life as evidence of what I'm saying is that your identity has not been constant throughout your life your identity has always been changing in a sense you've already died many times in your life if you're 30 years old right now if

you're 40 50 60 think back compared to what you are I mean compare what you were when you were 10 years old to who you are now totally different some stuff seems similar but you can't even remember how different you used to

But we trick ourselves, our mind tricks us to convince us that, well, I didn't really change, I was the same my whole life. No, you changed enormously. Even if you didn't do self-improvement work, even if you didn't do spiritual work, you still

changed so much that it's hard to even call you the same person. Your body has changed. Every cell in your body has died and been reborn in this time multiple times. This happens to you at least once or twice a decade. All of you, all

the cells in your body reincarnate. We might say your belief system has changed, your career has probably changed, your likes and dislikes have probably changed. See, you're constantly going through this process because you're a shape shifter and that process will continue, and then of course it'll get more and

more radical over time as well, especially if you do this work. So while your temporary human identity can be lost, and it will be lost, and it must be lost, your identity as a shape shifter, as an infinite shape shifter, that can never be lost. That's the only permanent

thing there is. Impermanence, impermanence, shape-shifting, these are just synonyms for the same thing. As an infinite shape-shifter, you are immortal.

Why Wise People Embrace Impermanence - All Suffering Is Temporary

Why Wise People Embrace Impermanence - All Suffering Is Temporary

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