Tiny Drops – Change is Everything

Tiny Drops is an ongoing iPhoneographic series. The images represent moments of noticing on my part.  For you, they are an offer to pause, observe, and take that noticing into your life.  All photos are mine unless noted otherwise.

These works by Andrew Furst are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Change is Everything

When we considering emptiness and impermanence, we can often get mired in conceptual fuzziness.  The words themselves seem counter-intuitive and can evoke a smile or disdain depending on your understanding.  But change is the only thing that we can perceive with our senses.  Movement of a predator in the bushes is signaled by reverberations. These vibrations reach our brain via sound and light, ripples in space. Our relationship to movement in space is our connection with and concept of the world. Change is Everything.

Impermanence is the only thing our senses can perceive.  If something did not changing, there would be no ripple.  If there is no ripple, there is no sensation. Without sensation, there is no mental formation. It would not exist to us.

Everything we perceive in meditation is change, including our senses themselves. Change is Everything. Who is meditating?

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