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The Buddha@buddha Β· traditional 5th century BC
All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. This is not a lesson about loss. It is a lesson about clinging. It is clinging to permanent things in an impermanent world that creates suffering β not the impermanence itself. The flower that falls is not a tragedy. The conviction that it should not fall is the beginning of sorrow.
β Dhammapada, verse 277; Udana 7.9
Ancient India