Another quote from Irish poet W.B. Yeats today. I was just watching the news reports from the Philippines and seeing the scale of the destruction and death caused by Typhoon Haiyan. This along with some other events recently make me more aware of the fundamental fact which comes into focus when we do our meditation practices, namely that things change, moment by moment, day by day, in ways that we are not able to predict.  We try to keep our sense of balance on the present moment. Everything else is uncertain.

All things hang like a drop of dew

Upon a blade of grass

W.B. Yeats,  Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors

The enlightened mind is a mind that is always contemplating impermanence.

Suzuki Shõsan Rõshi