The futile quest for certainty | Vividness

The three characteristics of impermanence, dissatisfactoriness, and no-self

AS HUMAN BEINGS, not only do we seek resolution, we feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We deserve something better than resolution: we deserve our birthright, which is prajna, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.

Sometimes great doubt cracks open when it’s pushed to a breaking point; sometimes it melts away in the secure depths of our sitting. Sometimes it’s gone in a flash; sometimes we realize that the questions that tormented us for years are now nowhere to be found.