The rock band Kansas had a hit with the song "Dust in the Wind"
I think it sums up very well the idea of impermanence that The Buddha spoke of.
Here is a link to the web page of the band Kansas where there is a Youtube Video of the song: http://www.kansasband.com/2010/dust-in-the-wind.html
I think you will enjoy not only the song, but its deeper meaning as well.
Dust in the wind.
Copyright © 1978 Kerry Livgren
I close my eyes
Only for a moment, then the moments gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind
Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind,
ohh
Now, don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Song of impermanence
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tiltbillings
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Re: Song of impermanence
Good song. A couple of others:
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
Re: Song of impermanence
From the Moody Blues c.1970
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
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rowyourboat
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Re: Song of impermanence
It's a shame we dont have many dedicated Buddhist songs. Christians excell in this area.
with metta
with metta
With Metta
Karuna
Mudita
& Upekkha
Karuna
Mudita
& Upekkha
Re: Song of impermanence
Well sure, but do you really want a bunch of Buddhist songs that sound like an even worse version of Nickelback?rowyourboat wrote:Christians excel in this area.
Re: Song of impermanence
This is true, in a sense, for those who are not awake.bluebuddha wrote: Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind,
"When one thing is practiced & pursued, ignorance is abandoned, clear knowing arises, the conceit 'I am' is abandoned, latent tendencies are uprooted, fetters are abandoned. Which one thing? Mindfulness immersed in the body." -AN 1.230