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Impermanence - Finding the Eternal - Yogi Explains

Summary

, 14 min

Impermanence as the nature of the world, shown through Buddhist sand mandalas and a home lost to fire, and why the lesson must be relearned until it is grokked. The remedy offered is storing treasure in heaven, the upper nervous system, by soaking up transcendent qualities such as gratitude, joy and bliss in meditation.

In this video

Teaches
Impermanence
Discusses
RepetitionNon-attachmentGratitudeUpper nervous systemHoly Potato
Mentions
BuddhismBuddhaDream nature of lifeJesusBhagavad GitaJoy vs happinessFour Proofs of MeditationFreeze ResponseBliss

Key moments

00:00Buddhist sand mandalas swept away after thousands of hours01:51A house lost to fire: impermanence is not personal02:49Modern science: nothing is solid, everything in flux04:20How most people distract themselves from the lesson05:47Understanding vs grokking, from A Stranger in a Strange Land06:39Jesus: store up treasure in heaven, the upper nervous system07:14Krishna to Arjuna: be thou a yogi08:00Gratitude, love, joy and peace are transcendent09:11Soaking it up as the holy potato compounds capacity10:02Four proofs into the freeze response10:48Shifting the weight of life onto the eternal11:47Kriya as a bliss program, and finally grokking it