The Importance of Accepting Impermanence

And my son’s impending departure for college.

Hank Gerken

That Buddha was one wise dude.

His main teaching was that suffering comes from wanting things to be a certain way. Stop doing that and the suffering falls away.

So powerful. So simple. So true.

But as impactful to me is his emphasis on the concept of impermanence. What is that?

Here’s how Mr. AI explains impermanence:

“The Buddhist teaching that n…