Impermanence And No-Self

Impermanence and no-self is the episode’s bridge from markets to practice. In E43 张潇雨、孟岩对话许哲：没有更好的生活, Xu Zhe / 许哲 connects market uncertainty with the idea that events do not submit to a controlling self. The point is not that people or things do not exist, but that the controlling observer or owner one clings to is not stable in the way desire imagines.

The source uses this frame to reinterpret effort. “因上努力，果上随缘” means working on causes while recognizing that outcomes are not fully controlled. It also connects to No Better Life: if the mind treats investing, relationships, practice, or freedom as tools for finally reaching a better state, the improvement project itself becomes another attachment.

Key Claims

• Market uncertainty becomes a concrete case of impermanence rather than only a financial problem.
• No-self is presented as the loosening of a controlling observer, not as denial that persons or events appear.
• Effort belongs on the cause side; outcomes remain contingent.
• Practice cannot be reduced to another KPI for making life better.
• Seeing attachment often requires direct contact with disappointment, loss, or repeated failure of control.

Connections

• Xu Zhe / 许哲 — main source voice for this frame.
• Antifragility — financial uncertainty frame that leads into the practice discussion.
• No Better Life — closing life-philosophy conclusion.
• Life Antifragility — practical life-design layer that remains grounded without claiming control over results.