क्षणभंगुरता (en. Transience)

Life in a modern city is one continuous stress, a lot of negative emotions, a feeling of helplessness, transience, the inability to rest properly.

It indicates the transience of life, its continuous connection with death.

This magnificent work of the artist is filled with a sense of calm and gratitude over the years and is the personification of the transience of the life cycle.

So if you want to feel the transience of time and enjoy the traditional Japanese engraving, go to Koisikawa Ukiyo-e Museum.

But the nature of the moment - its transience, its interconnectedness with moments before and to come, its simultaneous emptying out and filling up - and the awareness of it and its contents, is never awful itself, and is in fact always unsullied and beautiful.

Last October, when I was out in Colorado Springs, I was amazed to spend time with Millennial Evangelicals and hear them talk about a deep frustration with the shallowness and transience of contemporary megachurch worship, and a longing for liturgy.