| Everything is impermanent by nature. There's no | | | | and again and again. |
| choice - nothing lasts. What is the definition of | | | | It is the same if our happiness is dependent on |
| impermanence? Any phenomenon - any item, object, | | | | achieving wealth and only wanting wealth. Wealth and |
| thought, place, person, situation, whatever - that is | | | | the process of achieving it take up a lot of time. It |
| dependent on other causes or phenomena for its | | | | takes away our youth, our time from our family; it |
| existence, is impermanent. | | | | takes away time from everything. On your way to |
| People who are attached to praise, and whose | | | | gaining wealth, you have to make lots of sacrifices |
| happiness arises from praise, will find that their | | | | such as health and mental peace. We might even |
| happiness is fleeting. This is because praise is | | | | follow a wrong path in order to make money - carry |
| dependent on many, many things. It is dependent on | | | | out negative actions or do things that break the law. |
| our actions and on the stability of our actions. It is | | | | And then when we actually become rich, we find |
| dependant on getting the praise and having the | | | | that money is an unstable thing and we can lose it |
| people around to praise you. | | | | anytime. Achieving it requires so many causes, and |
| When you don't get praised, you become unhappy. | | | | the causes themselves are impermanent. Therefore, |
| So praise is impermanent. It is not lasting. If we | | | | if we base our happiness on wealth , achieving it and |
| depend on deriving happiness from being praised, we | | | | the process of achieving it, we will definitely suffer |
| will definitely experience unhappiness again and again | | | | badly. |