We humans are a process. There's nothing static. And we have this thing we call time that we look at sequentially. That’s how we accept in life that one thing happens and then the next thing happens. In this tradition, we talk about causes and conditions, which have to do with how something precedes something else in order for it to be. The oak tree is conditioned by the acorn; seeing is conditioned by there being light. All the phenomena we call life are part of conditioned reality. And the main condition of conditioned reality is that it changes. As the Dharma says: “All conditioned things are impermanent.” And we humans are a part of that.
Talks
June 14, 2019
| 56 min.
Aging, Dying and Awakening: Nothing's Wrong
Konda Mason

Konda Mason
Residential Retreat Teacher
Konda Mason is a social entrepreneur, eco-spiritual thought leader, mindfulness teacher, and justice advocate working at the intersection of social and financial justice and planetary healing. Introduced to Tibetan Buddhism in 1982, she began practicing vipassanā in 1996 with Jack Kornfield. She has taught at Spirit Rock since 1997 and is a graduate of the 2020 Spirit Rock Teacher Training program.