All conditions are transient. This is the truth, you know. And yet we get stuck trying to make things solid, or feeling that we’re solid. And it can be just a feeling! It's really important to learn how to know the transience of all things, especially to be with the arising of something difficult. Feel it, maybe even hear the thoughts around it, and then stay with it. Stay with it and watch it change. It will change—everything changes—it passes away, and then it’s gone.

Ayya Anandabodhi
Spirit Rock Residential Teacher/Monastic
Ayya Ānandabodhī has lived and practiced as a Buddhist nun for over 30 years. Ayya brings together her training in the Thai Forest tradition with the contemporary Bhikkhunī lineage, which has its roots in ancient India and its branches and fruits in the modern world.