How can impermanence be looked at in a positive way?

Impermanence is change - one example is thinking about music – it is changing all the time. Sometimes the melody goes up, sometimes it goes down; sometimes it gets louder, sometimes it gets softer. If there were no changes and it was always the same, then music would just be a monotone. Because of impermanence, the pitch can change, so we have beautiful melodies that go up and down, get louder and softer.

Because there is change, we have the chance to experience things, see things that we have never experienced or seen before. This change represents opportunity.

His Holiness, 17th Gyalwang Karmapa

Ogyen Trinley Dorje

From talk at Root Institute, Bodh Gaya, January 2015