Clouds

Watching clouds is not a waste of time. They have a lot to teach us about impermanence.

I was meditating on the clouds as they were born in the southwestern sky over the mountains. As they moved into the dry hot air of the valley the clouds got thin and slowly evaporated. It wasn't sad to watch how they came into existence, nor how they seemed to disappear. In truth the clouds just went back to their source to start another cycle; but I couldn't see them with my earthly eyes. Our thoughts are like that too if you sit and watch them arise and dissipate. So are we.

The Awakened One taught: "Everything arises and passes away. When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way." The Dhammapada

The clouds were like Buddha's that day teaching me the wisdom of impermanence.