Politics is an impermanent factor of life. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Often translated as "impermanent," it's actually the negative of nicca, which means constant or dependable. From Wordnik.com. [All About Change by Thanissaro Bhikkhu] Reference
We can learn from the fact that life is impermanent. From Wordnik.com. [Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.: Lessons From Life's Final Moments] Reference
If you create the impermanent, then you will suffer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 19, 2007] Reference
It seems to give us all a sort of impermanent feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29] Reference
But as Buddhists say the world is an impermanent place. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
We're talking about impermanent, transient, human truth. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Beale Announces His Mission to Tell the Truth] Reference
Everything feels so impermanent, so fast moving, so fleeting. From Wordnik.com. [this has got to lie down...with someone else on top] Reference
But impermanent things inevitably receive harm and fall apart. From Wordnik.com. [Summary of Aryadeva's Four Hundred Verses] Reference
LIEBERMAN: Yes, it's fragile in the sense that it's impermanent. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2008] Reference
They are usually translated as permanent and impermanent phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [The Mechanism of Karma: The Mahayana Presentation, Except for Gelug Prasangika ��� Session Two: Mental Factors Associated with Karma] Reference
Therefore, (particles as) a cause must be nonstatic and impermanent. From Wordnik.com. [Four Hundred Verse Treatise on the Actions of a Bodhisattva's Yoga ��� Chapters 9 - 12] Reference
Although your body is impermanent, still you need to take care of it. From Wordnik.com. [Summary of Aryadeva's Four Hundred Verses] Reference
And they are impermanent, because we've seen they can be so easily overturned. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2009] Reference
And they are impermanent because we have seen they can be so easily overturned. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2009] Reference
It is just a scratch-mark, made of a collection of atoms, and it is impermanent. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Indian Buddhist Tenet Systems Regarding Illusion: A Practical Approach] Reference
I started appreciating the impermanent nature of life, its constant ebbs and flows. From Wordnik.com. [Marguerite Manteau-Rao: The Good News About Alzheimer's: How Mindfulness Can Heal Patients and the Ones Who Care for Them] Reference
Death makes people uncomfortable; it's a reminder that we are all impermanent here. From Wordnik.com. [Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.: Lessons From Life's Final Moments] Reference
It looks good for the general awaiting his triumph to set up an impermanent structure. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
We prefer to believe we're more favored than garden slugs-and perhaps less impermanent. From Wordnik.com. [Is The Mind An Illusion?] Reference
In this sense, static phenomena are “permanent;” nonstatic phenomena are “impermanent.”. From Wordnik.com. [Impermanence as a Resource for Building Healthy Relationships] Reference
Others might be frustrated working in the impermanent, fragile medium that is chalk art, but not Owens. From Wordnik.com. [Temporary art: Meet the guy who makes those elaborate, irreverent works of chalk art you've seen at bars around the city] Reference
He just let her see that he felt rather impermanent and might not be able to carry out all that he wished. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
It was distorted by the impermanent neurological circuitry of the brain (so little did one possess himself). From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
The islands in the delta were impermanent at best, always subject to the whims of the Great Mother of rivers. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
But if they do not pay attention to its history, they will have an unstable future, an impermanent future together. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009] Reference
In any case, worldly happiness – whether past, present, or future – can never satisfy, since it is impermanent. From Wordnik.com. [Summary of Aryadeva's Four Hundred Verses] Reference
As you have sadness with the changing of the four seasons, think about how your own time, too, will be impermanent. From Wordnik.com. [A Precious Garland for the Four Themes (of Gampopa)] Reference
State by state, county by county, city by city, and even when we win, those victories are incomplete and impermanent. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2009] Reference
All you people need something better to do than lambaste each others 'opinions on something so impermanent as the web. From Wordnik.com. [StrategyPage.com] Reference
The young also tend to view suicide itself as impermanent, glamorizing how pain-free their existence might be afterward. From Wordnik.com. [Teenage Suicide: One Act Not To Follow] Reference
For example, the sets of static (permanent) and nonstatic (impermanent) phenomena are mutually exclusive and dichotomous. From Wordnik.com. [Relationships between Two Objects in General] Reference
Buddhists, for example, showed no interest in investigating nature since it was both impermanent and, at bottom, an illusion. From Wordnik.com. ['How The Heavens Go'] Reference
It tortured him in one deranged second for all was a phantasm of the mind and the phantasmagoria of an impermanent existence. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
The mind is viewed as impermanent and therefore not the self, and phenomena comprising all mental factors are viewed as selfless. From Wordnik.com. [Shantideva's Wisdom Chapter] Reference
The Vaisheshikas argue that if something is produced, it is impermanent and if something is not produced, it is permanent and static. From Wordnik.com. [Summary of Aryadeva's Four Hundred Verses] Reference
An example of a line of reasoning is “a vase is a nonstatic (impermanent) phenomenon because it is affected by causes and conditions.”. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on An Aspiration Prayer for the Definitive Meaning of Mahamudra ��� 1 Obtaining the Necessities for Practice] Reference
External phenomena are nonstatic (impermanent) phenomena that arise from different natal sources (rdzas) than the valid cognitions of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Gelug Chittamatra Assertion of No External Phenomena] Reference
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