In poverty we accept impermanence. Impermanence terrifies us because it brings us face to face with our mortality, our death. But impermanence can also be seen simply in terms of this rhythm, this flow, the stillness connecting acts of motion, the stillness connecting the two breaths, the stillness connecting the two waves. There is impermanence, but there is also continuity. As we learn to be poor in meditation, as we learn what the mantra has to teach us, we accept our mortality, we accept death and dying as part of our growth, and we learn to practise non-attachment.
( Aspects of Love 2, by Laurence Freeman )
