The Three Lakshanas
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- Created on: 18-09-17 09:44
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- The Three Lakshanas
- Anicca
- Impermanence - there is a chain of cause and effect that everything is subject to
- An example of the transcience of all things is a flower which changes and decays
- Paticcasamuppada: everything is interconnected and codependent
- Heraclitus' theory of flux - 'you cannot stand in the same river twice'
- Impermanence - there is a chain of cause and effect that everything is subject to
- Anatta
- Non-self: the idea that there is nothing about a person that exists eternally without change
- The self is dependent on the coming together of five skandhas
- Body, sensations, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness
- Questions of King Milinda / Milindapanha
- Nagaena and King Milinda discuss how a name describes a thing but is not the thing itsef
- l'It is on account of the various components of my being that I am known by the generally understood term, the practical designation, Nagasena'
- Dukkha
- Suffering - the human condition
- The first of the Four Noble Truths
- All happiness is tainted by dukkha
- A fundamental philosophical concept
- Suffering - the human condition
- Anicca
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