Nagarjuna, the Buddhist philosopher, claimed that nothing is really impermanent.
“What Nagarjuna is pointing to is that believing things are impermanent involves a contradiction. First, we posit separate, persisting things, then we refer to them as impermanent. What we fail to see is that we are still holding on to a view of substance. […] There’s only flux. Nothing is (or can be) riding along in the flux, like a cork in a stream; nothing actually arises or passes away. There’s only stream.”
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