EXISTENCE IS IMPERMANENT

When a prince asked his jeweler to make him something that would carry him through times of triumph as well as times of defeat, the jeweler made him a ring inscribed with the words, “It will pass.”  The Buddhist term for impermanence is annica  

Existence is in a state of flux.  Every day is different.  Every moment is different.  All is transient, hence unreliable, hence the cause of all suffering.  

We seek fulfillment in life but we never really feel fulfilled because what we seek fulfillment in, is time bound, transient.  When we try to grasp it, it just runs through our hands.  

We are not happy with what we achieve, own, and know because too quickly we are tired of it, are bored with it.  Time kills it.  We then go on to achieve, own, and know more, which again because of time is satisfying only briefly.