The Nature of Our World
May 2, 2007
Venerable Wuling in Change

What is real? Important? Lasting?

What seemed so intensely important when we were children, teenagers, and young adults is long forgotten. Friends we couldn't bear to be separated from are now never thought of. Places we wanted to be, experiences we wanted to have—gone. The kind of lives we lived as children are no longer.

All the things we once held as real have changed. Change is the true state of the world we live in.  

 

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