WHAT DOESNT CHANGE? Lama Dawa's Commentary

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Commentary voice-over work: Lama Dawa Zangpo
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"The water flows, but the river stays. The clouds float, but the sky remains."
-Thich Nhat Hanh, in the book No death, No Fear.

Lama Dawa Zangpo’s Commentary:
A river is seems to be a something real, something solid, something we can identify, we can name it, we know where it goes, and yet as we look closer. A river is a constant flow or movement of water. There's no river other than movement, things changing every second. The water is always different. So this is a very important analogy. And similarly, Thich Nhat Hanh is reminding us that although clouds float through the sky, the sky itself doesn't change. It can be nighttime, daytime. It can be. There can be rainbows, clouds, clear sky, hail. It doesn't matter. The sky is the sky. The sky does not change. So Tiglan Han here's talking about the combination of relative truth and ultimate truth. What is the relative? The relative is the fact that we have an idea of a river, or we have an idea of clouds. The ultimate truth is that which in a sense doesn't change the sky. And in the case of the river and water, we have this relative idea of a river, but it's actually impermanent. There's nothing really there or solid. In other words, we say it is empty.

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