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Tuesday, January 2, 2018

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In Buddhism, the three marks of existence are three characteristics (Pali: tilakkha?a; Sanskrit: trilak?a?a) of all existence and beings, namely impermanence (anicca), unsatisfactoriness or suffering (dukkha), and non-self (anatt?). These three characteristics are mentioned in verses 277, 278 and 279 of the Dhammapada. That humans are subject to delusion about the three marks, that this delusion results in suffering, and that removal of that delusion results in the end of suffering, is a central theme in the Buddhist Four Noble Truths and Noble Eightfold Path.


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Description

The three marks are:

  1. sabbe sa?kh?r? anicc? -- "all sa?kh?ras (conditioned things) are impermanent"
  2. sabbe sa?kh?r? dukkh? -- "all sa?kh?ras are unsatisfactory"
  3. sabbe dhamm? anatt? -- "all dharmas (conditioned or unconditioned things) are not self"

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Explanation

Impermanence

Impermanence (Pali anicca, Sanskrit anitya) means that all conditioned things (sa?kh?ra) are in a constant state of flux. Buddhism states that all physical and mental events come into being and dissolve. Human life embodies this flux in the aging process, the cycle of repeated birth and death (Samsara), nothing lasts, and everything decays. This is applicable to all beings and their environs, including beings who are reborn in deva (god) and naraka (hell) realms. This is in contrast to nirvana, the reality that is nicca, or knows no change, decay or death.

Dukkha

Dukkha (Sanskrit duhkha) means "unsatisfactoriness, suffering, pain". The dukkha includes the physical and mental sufferings that follows each rebirth, aging, illness, dying; dissatisfaction from getting what a being wishes to avoid or not getting the desired, or because all forms of life are impermanent and without any essence.

Anatta

Anatta (Sanskrit anatman) refers to the doctrine of "non-self", that there is no unchanging, permanent Self or soul in living beings and no abiding essence in anything or phenomena.

While anicca and dukkha apply to "all conditioned phenomena" (sa?kh?r?), anatt? has a wider scope because it applies to all dhamm? without "conditioned, unconditioned" qualification. Thus, nirvana too is a state of "without Self" or anatta. The phrase "sabbe dhamma anatta" includes within its scope each skandha (aggregate, heap) that compose any being, and the belief "I am" is a mark of conceit which must be destroyed to end all Dukkha. The Anatt? doctrine of Buddhism denies that there is anything called a 'Self' in any person or anything else, and that a belief in 'Self' is a source of Dukkha.


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Application

In Buddhism, ignorance of (avidy?, or moha; i.e. a failure to grasp directly) the three marks of existence is regarded as the first link in the overall process of sa?s?ra whereby a being is subject to repeated existences in an endless cycle of suffering. As a consequence, dissolving that ignorance through direct insight into the three marks is said to bring an end to sa?s?ra and, as a result, to that suffering (dukkha nirodha or nirodha sacca, as described in the third of the Four Noble Truths).

Gautama Buddha taught that all beings conditioned by causes (sa?kh?ra) are impermanent (anicca) and suffering (dukkha), and that not-self (anatt?) characterises all dhammas, meaning there is no "I" "me" or "mine" in either the conditioned or the unconditioned (i.e. nibb?na). The teaching of three marks of existence in the Pali Canon is credited to the Buddha.


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See also

  • ?tman (Buddhism)
  • Four Dharma Seals
  • Pyrrho

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References

Sources

Source of article : Wikipedia