The core of Buddhist teachings is the impermanence of things. That is, there is nothing that truly exists forever be it life, people, relationships or just about anything. Take relationship for instance - it passes through various stages that finally leads to commitment. It ends when someone dies or separates. Similar to relationships, everything that we come across goes through a sort of normal distribution curve where it rises initially, coasts for a while and then, there is a decline.
We all get old, our memories fade. The nature around us changes too. Species come and go. Nature uses its destructive forces - earthquakes to reshape continental plates. These changes are so timed that it makes the universe endure. And it is a mystery as to why things have to be this way. Nobody wants to lose a loved one. We would all want somethings to remain the way they are. But, the reality is that everything fades after a spectacular debut.
Perhaps there is some form of holiness or spirituality involved in this. And things end so we can have that spiritual experience. The fact that reality is not permanent does not mean we have to consider it to be superficial. It could mean wholeness - the consciousness of sacred possibilities in finite things.
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