The Three Marks of Existence
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- Created on: 22-12-20 14:16
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- The Three Marks of Existence
- Anicca
- Anicca means impermanence
- Nothing in life is permanent and as everything is always changing Liberation is possible
- Mark of impermanence has two aspects
- 1) Gross: when we pay attention it becomes clear that everything arises and passes away (e.g. death)
- 2) Subtle: the things that are there before we're born and die - nothing is static
- The Buddhist ideal is to live without craving (tanha) and attachment.
- Anicca helps us to do so
- If we realise that nothing stays the same then there is a lesser reason to hold onto it
- Anicca means impermanence
- Dukkha
- Dukkha can be translated as suffering, unsatisfactoriness, unease, anguish
- Buddha taught there are 3 different categories of Dukkha
- 1) Suffering/Pain (Dukkha): physical, emotional + mental pain
- 2) Change (Viparinama): pain or frustration caused by anicca
- 3) Conditioned Experience (Samkarha): suffering caused the realisation we are dependent on things
- There are sufferings that are unavoidable - BIRTH, SICKNESS, OLD AGE + DEATH
- Concept of suffering can be illustrated by the Mustard Seed Parable
- The parable teaches that the Buddha will save the dead child of a woman who can retrieve a mustard seed from a house that has not experience grief.
- Anatta
- Anatta is the doctrine that there is no permanent self
- The Buddha doesn't claim that there completely/definitely isn't a self, but that the self that we identify with is not fixed
- Individuals are finite products of the 5 Skandhas
- 1) Form
- 2) Sensation
- 3) Perception
- 4) Mental Formation
- 5) Consciousness
- Buddha's rejection of Eternalism and Nihilism
- Scholar Sri Dhammananda says
- Buddha rejected Eternalism because things change and continue to do so
- Buddha rejected Nihilistic views based they are based on incomplete understanding of reality
- Buddhism is the middle way between Eternalism and Nihilism
- Scholar Sri Dhammananda says
- King Milinda's Questions and Chariot Analogy can be used to illustrate Anatta
- Anatta is the doctrine that there is no permanent self
- Buddha taught that all things in life are linked by three marks
- Buddhists argue that all life is subject to these marks of existence - especially sentient beings
- These marks are all interlinked and interdependent on one another as a part of samsaric existence
- We must take these three factors into account if we are able to realise enlightenment
- Anicca
- Scholar Sri Dhammananda says
- Buddha rejected Eternalism because things change and continue to do so
- Buddha rejected Nihilistic views based they are based on incomplete understanding of reality
- Buddhism is the middle way between Eternalism and Nihilism
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