Ajahn Amaro, a Theravada Buddhist monk trained in the Thai Forest tradition, teaches on impermanence as uncertainty in this talk. He presents Buddhist wisdom in a run of linked statements: discrimination is consciousness, nondiscrimination is wisdom, clinging to consciousness causes defilement, wisdom causes defilement, defilement causes birth and death, and purity leads to where there are no Buddhists. Why impermanence as uncertainty?
Recognizing how you are right now, still breathing present in essence step back from it into the great sweep of time and then how you’re feeling right now is an impermanent phenomenon: some of what’s happening right now was not here this morning, some of how you were this morning is not here now, some of how you’re feeling now would not be this way tomorrow, some of how you’ll feel tomorrow is not here now.
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