I broke up with my girlfriend this week. Or maybe she broke up with me. Honestly, I'm not sure what you call it when two people who say, "I love you" every day mutually decide that things aren't working out. I just know that I started this holiday season with a significant other, and I'm going to end it all alone. What's confusing the hell out of me, however, is that she's a good person. And I'm a good person ... I think. So what does it mean when two good people can't make a relationship work? This is the question that I've been pondering the past few days as I power through the five stages of grief , and the word that keeps popping into my head is, "impermanence". Buddha tells us that everything arises and everything passes away. In other words, impermanence is a permanent part of life (see what I did there). Furthermore, it's our desire to keep things from changing that causes suffering. That makes sense whe
by Sensei Alex Kakuyo