By frequently seeing gone, the mind comes to understand the nature of impermanence. The mind realizes that, “Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.” When the mind intimately understands the nature of impermanence, it begins to see the gratification of sense pleasures as an unsatisfactory way of creating lasting happiness. So it stops clinging so desperately to sense pleasure, and the less desperately it clings to sense pleasure, the less it suffers from being the slave of sense pleasure, the more freedom it enjoys, and the more joyful it becomes.
