Nothing stays intact
indefinitely.
All Appearances,
without exception,
disintegrate
and become
something else.
Thoughts,
sensations,
emotions,
intuitions,
dreams,
relationships,
possessions,
cells,
organisms,
planets,
stars,
solar systems;
all impermanent.
The natural law
of impermanence
is not tragic.
It's magic.
The wonder
of Appearances
is that they do not
endure;
morning fog,
an afternoon rainbow,
a butterfly.
Now here, now gone.
As we understand
the insubstantiality
of Appearances,
spiritual maturity
dawns.
Meditation
might be
nothing more than
abiding
in self-resolving simplicity,
resting
in the uncontrived state
of innate wholeness
with nothing to gain
and nothing to lose.
Insubstantiality