Revelation and Changes

 Revelation

Letting go of all your material attachments is de-cluttering your mind, which provides you with clarity of thinking.

With clarity of thinking in your advanced years, revelation may now inspire you with the intuition that God has given you a unique life and destiny that only you can complete according to His way and time. So, continue with your life journey until you reach your destination.

In addition, revelation of your God-given destiny may also make you become grateful to God for what you now still have, rather than for what you previously owned and now lost forever.

Gratitude is your connection with God, if you're an unbeliever, and your re-connection with God, if you're already a believer but have somehow drifted away from God.

Changes

Everything is changing in life, and nothing lasts. Impermanence results from the changes that're continual and non-stop.

According to Buddha, life is like a river. The water flowing in a river is like a progressive and a successive series of different but unified movements of water, all joining together to create the impression of one continuous flow of water.

 Likewise, human existence is only moment to moment, with each moment leading to the next. It is an "illusion" that the person in this moment will be the "same" person in the next moment, just as the river of yesterday is not quite the same as the river of today.

Even from a scientific point of view, Buddha’s perspective is true. We know that cell divisions take place in each living being continuously: old cells in our bodies die and are then continuously replaced by new ones. Technically speaking, all individuals are continuously subject to this change, and change is only a continuous movement, just like the flowing water in a river.

Understanding the impermanence of anything and everything is self-enlightening.

Death empties anything and everything—that is, the ego and all its attachments to the material world, including success and failure in careers and vocations, in marriages and human relationships, in abundance and lack, and among others.

Emptiness is nothingness in which everything becomes nothing. No matter how you age, your end is near.

Permanent Truths

Impermanence and change are the undeniable and permanent truths of all human existence.

The various stages in the life of a man—the childhood, the adulthood, the old age—are not the same at any given time. The child is not the same when he grows up and becomes a young man, and that young man is not the same when he turns into an old man. The seed is not the tree, though it produces the tree, and the fruit is also not the tree, though it is a product of the tree. 

Stephen Lau