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The changing of the seasons\u2014spring in the southern hemisphere, autumn in the north\u2014reminds us, through nature, that nothing remains the same. This insight is not new: around 500 B.C., in geographically distant places, two thinkers reached the same conclusion. Heraclitus, in Ephesus, asserted that \u201cnothing is permanent except change.\u201d More than four thousand kilometers away, in northern India, the historical Buddha taught that impermanence is a natural law.<\/p>

These teachings have a direct impact on our identity. If nature operates through continuous processes, and we are part of it, then what we call \u201cI\u201d is also in constant transformation. There is no fixed identity\u2014it is processual, relational, and interdependent.<\/p>

The Buddha also taught that \u201cthe mind creates reality.\u201d Contemporary science accumulates evidence in this direction: we perceive the world through mental filters shaped by conditioning. This means that our response to facts can change, even when the facts remain the same.<\/p>

Two practical implications stand out:
. Possible freedoms: if identity is not fixed, we are not bound by immutable standards. Change is always possible.
. Systemic effect: acting on one's own consciousness is acting on the whole. The entry point for transforming perceived reality is within us.<\/p>

In everyday life, this means that the level of contentment we experience depends less on circumstances and more on the attitude we adopt toward them. The same event\u2014such as spending time in silence and alone\u2014can be experienced as a conscious choice or as isolation, depending on the internal state of the person experiencing it.<\/p>

Learning from nature involves cultivating flexibility and openness. If science states that most of what we perceive as solid is, in fact, space, it makes sense to leave spaces\u2014both on the material and conceptual levels. In the realm of concepts, it is important to maintain a willingness to continually learn from new perspectives on reality; in the body, change is possible when we respect our current limits and remain consistent in forming new habits.<\/p>

Understanding these principles does not eliminate the challenges of the processes of change,\nbut it offers a clearer foundation for carrying them out.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A mudan\u00e7a de esta\u00e7\u00e3o \u2014 Primavera no hemisf\u00e9rio sul, Outono no norte \u2014 nos lembra, pela natureza, que nada permanece. Essa percep\u00e7\u00e3o n\u00e3o \u00e9 nova: por volta de 500 a.C., em lugares distantes geograficamente, dois pensadores chegaram \u00e0 mesma conclus\u00e3o. Her\u00e1clito, em \u00c9feso, afirmava que “nada \u00e9 permanente, exceto a mudan\u00e7a”. A mais de quatro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/simpleschool.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geralt-woman-2692437_1920.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simpleschool.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simpleschool.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simpleschool.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpleschool.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpleschool.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simpleschool.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"https:\/\/simpleschool.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpleschool.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simpleschool.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpleschool.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpleschool.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}