Yvain comments on Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 2 of 3) - Less Wrong

25 Post author: DavidM 04 May 2011 10:38PM

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Comment author: Yvain 05 May 2011 12:33:38PM 0 points [-]

Thank you. I'd heard the "impermanence of phenomena" phrase before but mistakenly thought it meant things like how all your material goods will one day break down and decay. I'll look up Sayadaw.

Comment author: DavidM 06 May 2011 01:12:16AM 2 points [-]

The orthodox Buddhist position seems to be that 'impermanence' is both gross (the breakdown of macro-level objects) and subtle (fluctuations in all the objects of one's experience).

FYI, "Sayadaw" is a title / honorific, so googling just that won't help much.