Drop of Dhamma Delight!

Friends:

Why do things appear as lasting, when they are not?

The Blessed Buddha once said:

Bhikkhu, there is no lasting materiality, no lasting form whatsoever...
there is no lasting feeling whatsoever...

there is no lasting perception whatsoever...

there is no lasting mental construction whatsoever...
there is no lasting conscious awareness whatsoever...
that is permanent, everlasting, eternal, not subject to change,
not transient, not vanishing, that will last as long as eternity... !!!

SN 22.96/vol. iii, 144

The eye is impermanent, visual forms, eye-consciousness, eye contact,
& whatever is felt as pleasant, painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant,
born of this eye-contact, that also is impermanent...

The ear is impermanent, sounds, hearing-consciousness, ear contact,
& whatever is felt as pleasant, painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant,
born of this ear-contact, that also is impermanent...

The nose is impermanent, smells, smelling-consciousness, nose contact,
& whatever is felt as pleasant, painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant,
born of this nose-contact, that also is impermanent...
The tongue is impermanent, flavours, tasting-consciousness, tongue contact,
& whatever is felt as pleasant, painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant,
born of this tongue-contact, that also is impermanent...
The body is impermanent, touches, touching-consciousness, body contact,
& whatever is felt as pleasant, painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant,
born of this body-contact, that also is impermanent...
The mind is impermanent, thoughts, thinking-consciousness, mind contact,
& whatever is felt as pleasant, painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant,
born of this mind-contact, that also is impermanent...
SN 35.43/vol. iv, 28

All formations, all constructions are impermanent...
MN 35/vol. i, 230

Whatever can emerge, that also will cease...
MN 56/vol. i, 380

Impermanence, as pointed out in the commentaries,
is not always Evident unless specifically looked for:

False Apparent Continuity covers up and camouflages Impermanence:

The characteristic of impermanence does not become apparent because,
when rise and fall are not given attention, it is concealed by continuity...
However, when continuity is disrupted by discerning rise and fall,
the characteristic of impermanence becomes apparent in its true nature.

Vism. Ch. xxi/p. 640

Observing the abrupt Change of all States discloses their discrete nature:
When continuity is disrupted means when continuity is exposed by observation
of the perpetual alteration of states as they go on occurring in succession.
For it is not through the connectedness of states that the characteristic of
impermanence becomes apparent to one who rightly observes rise and fall,
but rather the characteristic becomes properly evident through their
discrete disconnectedness, regarded as if each moment were iron darts,

instead of as pearls on a string...

VismA. 824