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Likewise, #acceptance does not mean passivity. To accept #impermanence is not to ignore injustice or suffering. It means responding clearly rather than reactively. One can act firmly while remaining grounded. One can oppose harm without being consumed by hatred. This balance is part of practice. (46/54)

Many ask whether #Buddhism has strict positions on #sexuality, #gender, or #social identity. Simply, no. They do not determine whether one can observe #impermanence, cultivate #awareness, or reduce suffering. The path concerns greed, anger, & ignorance, not policing identity. #Social categories belong to culture. Practice concerns how attachment operates. (39/54)

Many ask whether #Buddhism has strict positions on #sexuality, #gender, or #social identity. Simply, no. They do not determine whether one can observe #impermanence, cultivate #awareness, or reduce suffering. The path concerns greed, anger, & ignorance, not policing identity. #Social categories belong to culture. Practice concerns how attachment operates. (39/54)

When #impermanence is deeply understood, clinging begins to loosen. This does not mean indifference. It means appreciation. A flower is precious because it withers. A conversation matters because it ends. A #body is beautiful because it changes. A friendship is meaningful because it is not guaranteed forever. To understand #impermanence is to value life more deeply, not less. (11/54)

#Impermanence is central. Everything changes. This sounds obvious, yet most people live as though it were not true. We make plans assuming certainty. We build identities as though they were fixed. We hold grudges as though the person who offended us yesterday is identical to the person before us today. But all conditions shift. The one who was angry an hour ago is not exactly the same as the one reading this now. (10/54)

#Meditation is not about forcing thoughts away. It is about seeing them as they arise & pass. A thought appears, lingers briefly, then disappears. Another replaces it. None stay. None can be held. The same is true of emotions. #Anger surges, peaks, fades. Fear rises, then falls. Joy appears, then passes. This direct observation reveals #impermanence more clearly than any philosophy. (9/54)

the rootless

wandering the earth —

drops of dew

#haiku
#senryu
#impermanence
#dailyhaikuprompt

The Theatrical Bubble (1805) by James Gillray.

Source: Yale Center for British Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/60a32499-a19a-4315-84bf-4af2a9b9c88d

#satire #bubbles #soap #caricatures #death #impermanence #vanitas #art #publicdomain

The Theatrical Bubble (1805) by James Gillray.

Source: Yale Center for British Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/60a32499-a19a-4315-84bf-4af2a9b9c88d

#satire #bubbles #soap #caricatures #death #impermanence #vanitas #art #publicdomain

The Theatrical Bubble (1805) by James Gillray.

Source: Yale Center for British Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/60a32499-a19a-4315-84bf-4af2a9b9c88d

#satire #bubbles #soap #caricatures #death #impermanence #vanitas #art #publicdomain

The Theatrical Bubble (1805) by James Gillray.

Source: Yale Center for British Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/60a32499-a19a-4315-84bf-4af2a9b9c88d

#satire #bubbles #soap #caricatures #death #impermanence #vanitas #art #publicdomain

The Theatrical Bubble (1805) by James Gillray.

Source: Yale Center for British Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/60a32499-a19a-4315-84bf-4af2a9b9c88d

#satire #bubbles #soap #caricatures #death #impermanence #vanitas #art #publicdomain

The vagaries of life, though painful, teach us not to cling to this floating world.

-Ikkyū

#zen
#buddhism
#impermanence

As a #BuddhistMonk, many people ask me about #homosexuality, being #transgender, #sex, marriage, or relationships, as though these are central religious questions. They are not. #Buddhist practice is concerned with suffering, its causes, & the way suffering may cease. It is about understanding #impermanence, attachment, #craving, anger, & delusion. #Gender identity & sexual preference do not alter this path. (1/5)

The Self

https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/the-self/

The Self

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The Self

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The Self

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The Self

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Why is it delusional (mohā) to say the body is me, mine, or myself? Because the body's matter/energy constantly change, move, become different. There is nothing stable there to call a substance or essence. The same is true of thoughts and feelings. It's like calling a flowing river 'me'.

#buddhism #body #moha #delusion #self #possession #impermanence #anicca #substance #essence #thoughts #feelings #physics #science

Cover art for a 1903 issue of *Puck* (1903) by Udo Keppler, from Puck, Vol. 54, no. 1380.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0e1261b3-7e9e-473b-9310-55d669a7da3c

#bubbles #soap #caricatures #bears #death #medals #impermanence #vanitas #art #publicdomain

Cover art for a 1903 issue of *Puck* (1903) by Udo Keppler, from Puck, Vol. 54, no. 1380.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0e1261b3-7e9e-473b-9310-55d669a7da3c

#bubbles #soap #caricatures #bears #death #medals #impermanence #vanitas #art #publicdomain

Cover art for a 1903 issue of *Puck* (1903) by Udo Keppler, from Puck, Vol. 54, no. 1380.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0e1261b3-7e9e-473b-9310-55d669a7da3c

#bubbles #soap #caricatures #bears #death #medals #impermanence #vanitas #art #publicdomain

Cover art for a 1903 issue of *Puck* (1903) by Udo Keppler, from Puck, Vol. 54, no. 1380.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0e1261b3-7e9e-473b-9310-55d669a7da3c

#bubbles #soap #caricatures #bears #death #medals #impermanence #vanitas #art #publicdomain

Cover art for a 1903 issue of *Puck* (1903) by Udo Keppler, from Puck, Vol. 54, no. 1380.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0e1261b3-7e9e-473b-9310-55d669a7da3c

#bubbles #soap #caricatures #bears #death #medals #impermanence #vanitas #art #publicdomain

A Boy Blowing Smoke Bubbles (ca. 1750).

Source: Städel Museum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/07cb3f2f-5551-4116-b239-571ad124560d

#bubbles #soap #tables #death #impermanence #blowing #hats #vanitas #art #publicdomain

A Boy Blowing Smoke Bubbles (ca. 1750).

Source: Städel Museum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/07cb3f2f-5551-4116-b239-571ad124560d

#bubbles #soap #tables #death #impermanence #blowing #hats #vanitas #art #publicdomain

A Boy Blowing Smoke Bubbles (ca. 1750).

Source: Städel Museum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/07cb3f2f-5551-4116-b239-571ad124560d

#bubbles #soap #tables #death #impermanence #blowing #hats #vanitas #art #publicdomain

A Boy Blowing Smoke Bubbles (ca. 1750).

Source: Städel Museum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/07cb3f2f-5551-4116-b239-571ad124560d

#bubbles #soap #tables #death #impermanence #blowing #hats #vanitas #art #publicdomain

A Boy Blowing Smoke Bubbles (ca. 1750).

Source: Städel Museum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/07cb3f2f-5551-4116-b239-571ad124560d

#bubbles #soap #tables #death #impermanence #blowing #hats #vanitas #art #publicdomain

Éclair de fleurs
Sur le mur
Saumon orangé

Les pétales nacrés
Dansent
Dans le vent frais

S'envolent
Sous le soleil au gré
Des murmures

Du temps passé
Impermanence
Accueillir le bonheur

Avant que la mort
N'effleure ta carapace
D'ego centré.

Texte et 🤳 Fabrice Antier

#poésie #Impermanence #poèmes #fleurs #bonheur

Éclair de fleurs
Sur le mur
Saumon orangé

Les pétales nacrés
Dansent
Dans le vent frais

S'envolent
Sous le soleil au gré
Des murmures

Du temps passé
Impermanence
Accueillir le bonheur

Avant que la mort
N'effleure ta carapace
D'ego centré.

Texte et 🤳 Fabrice Antier

#poésie #Impermanence #poèmes #fleurs #bonheur

@freya I am trying out #ZFS on my "homelab" server but was most surprised that it seems one has to do all the ZFS setup external to the #flake which only lives within the manually made ZFS pool environment. That seems to mean I need a sort of orchestration script like tool to match flake /persist data settings (am using #impermanence lite currently) to the ZFS setup hoo-ha. Works fine but is not declarative #nixos at all really. Any ideas there ?

Sharing a bit of perspective, fitting for these (and all) times. From “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius:

“Look back, and consider both how quickly all things that are, are forgotten, and what an immense chaos of eternity was before, and will follow after all things.”

#MarcusAurelius #Meditations #Perspective #Impermanence #Humility #Clarity #Philosophy #Spirituality #SpiritualBNR

Each difficulty becomes a chance to deepen #awareness, seeing how the #mind reacts & how the #body responds. This approach strengthens understanding of #impermanence & #interconnection, showing that life cannot be controlled, only experienced fully with clarity & #acceptance. (2/2)

Each difficulty becomes a chance to deepen #awareness, seeing how the #mind reacts & how the #body responds. This approach strengthens understanding of #impermanence & #interconnection, showing that life cannot be controlled, only experienced fully with clarity & #acceptance. (2/2)

Each difficulty becomes a chance to deepen #awareness, seeing how the #mind reacts & how the #body responds. This approach strengthens understanding of #impermanence & #interconnection, showing that life cannot be controlled, only experienced fully with clarity & #acceptance. (2/2)

Bubble-Blowing Boy (ca. 1800) by Lambertus Antonius Claessens.

Source: Rijksmuseum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/544fe1d9-2697-49d4-8810-610ce592adb3

#bubbles #soap #portraits #death #impermanence #children #vanitas #art #publicdomain

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Do you have a single #nixos #flake for multiple devices using different #nixosconfigurations in which for each device you have a specified /persist data location as part of an #impermanence setup? I am looking for examples, tips and foot-gun alerts.... cheers.

L' #impermanence était le thème de la semaine. Ce #samedi on l'évoque du côté du #vivreensemble

https://vincentbreton.fr/limpermanence-pour-mieux-vivre-ensemble/

Malefic – Impermanence Review | Angry Metal Guy

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Malefic – Impermanence Review | Angry Metal Guy

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A tabby cat is what you get when you let nature take its course. Nearly every stray is a tabby because, without selective breeding from human interference, cats just end up looking like that most of the time. Similarly, Atlanta’s Malefic feel to me what you’d get if you let the faster variants of extreme metal reach their natural conclusion. Playing a style that draws from thrash, black and death metal, Malefic formed in 2007 with the stated goal of modernizing black metal. In doing so, they’ve imbued in their slow-cooked debut Impermanence, an intensity and drive befitting a genre-forwarding record. But is Impermanence the cat’s meow, or did Malefic cough up a hairball?

Like how tabbies are genetically diverse but visually similar, Malefic’s many ingredients blend into a kind of extreme metal slurry on Impermanence, all present but difficult to identify individually. Sure, some riffs are more typically one thing than another, like the Testament-like thrash chops opening “In Darkest Dreams,” or the Dissectionesque blackened trems on “Blood of the Throne,” or the Opethian deathly grooves of “It Haunts.” But taken as a whole, Impermanence doesn’t lean towards one sub-genre over another. Instead, Malefic’s mutt-metal manifests into an off-kilter, volatile force of hostility, recalling heavily of the genre-blending approach Xoth take. Xoth are actually probably the best comparison to Malefic, as drummer Aaron Baumoel’s rasps and screams sound a lot like both of their vocal duo, and guitarists Jason Davila and Sam Williams’ solos follow the melodically rich, whammy-friendly stylings of Xoth (“Idiocracy”). Bolstered by a rhythm section of Baumoel and bassist Andy McGraw, who both know how to lay down some serious groove when needed (“Deserter”) and a dynamic mix, Impermanence shows that those years of honing their style have paid off for Malefic. It’s a good sound!

But what confuses me about Impermanence is that it feels aimless in many places, but not because Malefic can’t edit. To the contrary, every song on Impermanence is tight and focused, only running past five minutes on “It Haunts.”1 Malefic also aren’t indulging in extraneous instrumentals or soloing, as songs like “Of Gods and Man” and “Disembodiment” showcase the band’s restraint within their buck-wild playing. The issue is that Impermanence doesn’t stick with an idea long enough. “Blood of the Throne” and “Obsidian Earth” have, like, five riffs in their first minutes or so each; instead of expounding upon a few ideas, Malefic often churns through ideas before they’ve settled into something sticky. This pattern especially stinks when they land on something great and don’t develop it, like the swinging, discordant riff in the second verse(?) of “Echoes of Silence” or the guitar runs opening “Obsidian Earth.” Impermanence sees a band on a mission, but maybe also a band in too much of a hurry.

What this amounts to is that Impermanence possesses a sound I can’t say I’ve heard before, but also, confusingly, one that’s somewhat indistinct from other extreme metal albums. Malefic’s aforementioned style-soup is so dense with expansive inspirations and somewhat progressive tendencies (“Disembodiment,” “It Haunts”) that, besides some serious Xothisms here and there, it adds up to something not exactly like the sum of all of their influences. But at the same time, Impermanence’s loose structuring and lack of purposeful repetition hampers Malefic’s ability to craft lasting hooks. By and large, most songs start with some fanfare, rage for three-to-four minutes straight while Malefic tear through riffs with reckless abandon like a more evil, more succinct Trivium and end with little resolution. It can be very exciting and enjoyable in the moment, but I’m left with little to remember Impermanence by the time it’s over.

But there is nothing wrong with a tabby cat,2 and there’s nothing wrong with Malefic. They’ve carved out a great sound for themselves that more purposeful songwriting could harness into a truly hog-wild time. But where Impermanence excels in thrills, it lacks staying power, mostly in part to Malefic’s restless pursuit of riffs above all else. Fans of blackened thrash, blackened death, death thrash or bethrashened black death could do a lot worse than giving Impermanence a spin, but it’s probably not the genre-shaking game changer the band wanted. There’s always the sophomore album, however…



Rating: Mixed
DR: 9 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps MP3
Label: Terminus Hate City
Websites: maleficband.com | malefic.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/MaleficBandATL
Releases Worldwide: February 13th, 2026

A tabby cat is what you get when you let nature take its course. Nearly every stray is a tabby because, without selective breeding from human interference, cats just end up looking like that most of the time. Similarly, Atlanta’s Malefic feel to me what you’d get if you let the faster variants of extreme metal reach their natural conclusion. Playing a style that draws from thrash, black and death metal, Malefic formed in 2007 with the stated goal of modernizing black metal. In doing so, they’ve imbued in their slow-cooked debut Impermanence, an intensity and drive befitting a genre-forwarding record. But is Impermanence the cat’s meow, or did Malefic cough up a hairball?

Like how tabbies are genetically diverse but visually similar, Malefic’s many ingredients blend into a kind of extreme metal slurry on Impermanence, all present but difficult to identify individually. Sure, some riffs are more typically one thing than another, like the Testament-like thrash chops opening “In Darkest Dreams,” or the Dissectionesque blackened trems on “Blood of the Throne,” or the Opethian deathly grooves of “It Haunts.” But taken as a whole, Impermanence doesn’t lean towards one sub-genre over another. Instead, Malefic’s mutt-metal manifests into an off-kilter, volatile force of hostility, recalling heavily of the genre-blending approach Xoth take. Xoth are actually probably the best comparison to Malefic, as drummer Aaron Baumoel’s rasps and screams sound a lot like both of their vocal duo, and guitarists Jason Davila and Sam Williams’ solos follow the melodically rich, whammy-friendly stylings of Xoth (“Idiocracy”). Bolstered by a rhythm section of Baumoel and bassist Andy McGraw, who both know how to lay down some serious groove when needed (“Deserter”) and a dynamic mix, Impermanence shows that those years of honing their style have paid off for Malefic. It’s a good sound!

But what confuses me about Impermanence is that it feels aimless in many places, but not because Malefic can’t edit. To the contrary, every song on Impermanence is tight and focused, only running past five minutes on “It Haunts.”1 Malefic also aren’t indulging in extraneous instrumentals or soloing, as songs like “Of Gods and Man” and “Disembodiment” showcase the band’s restraint within their buck-wild playing. The issue is that Impermanence doesn’t stick with an idea long enough. “Blood of the Throne” and “Obsidian Earth” have, like, five riffs in their first minutes or so each; instead of expounding upon a few ideas, Malefic often churns through ideas before they’ve settled into something sticky. This pattern especially stinks when they land on something great and don’t develop it, like the swinging, discordant riff in the second verse(?) of “Echoes of Silence” or the guitar runs opening “Obsidian Earth.” Impermanence sees a band on a mission, but maybe also a band in too much of a hurry.

What this amounts to is that Impermanence possesses a sound I can’t say I’ve heard before, but also, confusingly, one that’s somewhat indistinct from other extreme metal albums. Malefic’s aforementioned style-soup is so dense with expansive inspirations and somewhat progressive tendencies (“Disembodiment,” “It Haunts”) that, besides some serious Xothisms here and there, it adds up to something not exactly like the sum of all of their influences. But at the same time, Impermanence’s loose structuring and lack of purposeful repetition hampers Malefic’s ability to craft lasting hooks. By and large, most songs start with some fanfare, rage for three-to-four minutes straight while Malefic tear through riffs with reckless abandon like a more evil, more succinct Trivium and end with little resolution. It can be very exciting and enjoyable in the moment, but I’m left with little to remember Impermanence by the time it’s over.

But there is nothing wrong with a tabby cat,2 and there’s nothing wrong with Malefic. They’ve carved out a great sound for themselves that more purposeful songwriting could harness into a truly hog-wild time. But where Impermanence excels in thrills, it lacks staying power, mostly in part to Malefic’s restless pursuit of riffs above all else. Fans of blackened thrash, blackened death, death thrash or bethrashened black death could do a lot worse than giving Impermanence a spin, but it’s probably not the genre-shaking game changer the band wanted. There’s always the sophomore album, however…



Rating: Mixed
DR: 9 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps MP3
Label: Terminus Hate City
Websites: maleficband.com | malefic.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/MaleficBandATL
Releases Worldwide: February 13th, 2026