As a path toward liberation, intellectual acknowledgment of impermanence must become integrated with embodied experience; then we can gain more support for giving up grasping at those things we cannot hold, whether that means our own bodies or those of people we love, or our roles, or our prestige.

In trying to teach Troublemaker physics, Kevin learned it himself. Seldom did Kevin look at the calendar, he was so content. He didn’t wish time away, nor did he long to be someplace else. His life was no longer a race into the future.