Following our breathing, we can say: All phenomena are impermanent. They are subject to birth and death. When the notions of birth and death are removed, this silence is called great joy. This meditation sums up all of the Buddha’s teaching.

Everything that exists can be placed into one of the Four Establishments of Mindfulness—namely the body, the feelings, the mind, and the objects of the mind. “All dharmas” is another way of saying “the objects of the mind.” Although all dharmas are divided into four, in reality they are one, because all Four Establishments of Mindfulness are all ob

Practice the First Noble Truth, identifying your suffering; the Second Noble Truth, seeing its sources; and the Third and Fourth Noble Truths, finding ways to transform your suffering and realize peace. The Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path are not theories. They are ways of action.

The body is constantly being born, dying, and transforming. I see how feelings are also impermanent, constantly being born, dying, and transforming. Perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness follow the same law of birth and death. All are impermanent. Before your visit today, I contemplated deeply on the impermanent nature of the five skand