The Third Noble Truth: All Things Must Pass
When I think of the Third Noble Truth, I think of that wonderful George Harrison song, "All Things Must Pass".
That's really the message of this truth. All things come and go. And this includes our suffering. Our suffering is impermanent. And if we have a rational understanding of our suffering, then we know this. It's like that trite self help line "This too shall pass".
Everything we perceive is always coming and going. Enlightenment is really just seeing this nature of things intuitively, seeing our situation as it is. We think of ourselves as individual beings who came into existence and will some day die. The Buddha described human beings as a stream. We came into being, but so many aspects of ourselves are just a continuation of other things. The whole universe is this way. When did you really begin? With your birth? With your conception? With your parents birth?
So, what do we do?
We manage our craving by not feeding it, letting go of our neurotic patterns so we don't make all our problems worse and make enemies out of everything all the time. Waking up to our true nature of interdependence yields freedom.
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