Impermanence
Condition exist through change. You can't prevent it. Just think could you exhale without inhaling? Would it feel good? Or could you just inhale? We want things to be permanent, but that can't be. It's impossible.
If you know that all things are impermanent, all your thinking will gradually unwind, and you won't need to think too much. Whenever anything arises, all you need to say is "Oh, another one!" Just that!
Any speech which ignores uncertainty is not the speech of sage.
If you really see uncertainty clearly, you will see that which is certain. The certainty is the things must inevitably be uncertain and they cannot be otherwise. Did you understand? Knowing just this much, you can know the Buddha, you can rightly do reverence to him.
Sometimes I'd go to see old religious sites with ancient temples. In some places they would cracked. Maybe one of my friends would remark, "Such a shame, isn't it? It's cracked." I'd answer, "if they wouldn't cracked there'd be no Dharmma. It's cracked like this because it's perfectly in line with the Buddha's teaching."
Conditions all go their own natural way. Whether we laugh or cry over them, they just go their own way. And there is no knowledge of science which can prevent this natural course of things. You may even get a dentist to look at your teeth, but even if he can fix them, they still finally go their natural way.
Eventually even the dentist has the same trouble. Everything falls apart in the end.
What we can take for certain? Nothing! There's nothing but feeling. Suffering arises, stays, then passes away.
Then happiness replaces suffering - only this. Outside of this, there is nothing and grabbing at feelings continuously. Feeling are not real, only changes.
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