The Three Lakshanas

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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'
    • 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

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