Impermanence - What does it mean?

I'll leave this blog post short.

Impermanence: Sanskrit: anitya; Pali: anicca.. One of the most important tenants in Buddhist philosophy, along with not-self and unsatisfactoriness. We know what impermanence means from a "negative Buddhist" standpoint: There is nothing that has any inherent existence. Nothing exists permanently, but relies on dependent origination.

As is recorded in the Majjhima Nikāya regarding impermanence: "Whatever is subject to origination is subject to cessation."

- Siddhārtha Gautama Śākyamuni Buddha, Majjhima Nikāya 56.

Naturally, I agree with this. If it has to start, it will finish. Our perceptions rely on us, for example, having an eye and consciousness, and something to perceive, as is the way the "ordinary" saṃsāric world operates: rising and falling, this gives rise to that, which gives rise to the other.

I agree with them on this; to some extent anyway, that is. To be more specific, I side more with Dolpopa Sherab Gyeltsen and his idea of zhentong - "other emptiness" and relate that to impermanence, meaning that I see everything as impermanent that is saṃsāric, as opposed to the Nirvāṇic permanency, of which our essential Buddhic-natures are parts of.

Everything saṃsāric will not last - but there is a Nirvāṇic permanency within everything. That, dare I call it, is the Buddha-nature.