Wednesday, November 07, 2012

The Three Common Characteristics

The Three Common Characteristics

          The Buddha confirms that all component and non - component things are bound by the natural law or the Orderliness of nature, named " The  Three Common Characteristics or the Law of Change. "

           Anicca; All conditioned states are implement. They are always changeable.

           Dukkha; All conditioned states are subject to change, to oppression, to conflict and to suffering.

           Anatta; All conditioned and non - conditioned [ Nibbana ] states are Selflessness, Soulless, Non - self or Sunyata.

           The Three charact

eristics of Existence confirm that all conditioned states [ material and non - material ] are as follows: arising, persisting with alteration and then subsistence or passing away. Everything is non - self or Anatta. Everything is impermanent, which means nothings is repeated for long; including body, feeling, perceptions, dispositions and consciousness. Life is by nature suffering because it is hemmed in by all things that are transient. All are non - self or anatta, which means emptiness. Nothing is substantial. Everything is by all appearances empty of substantiality or reality. There can be no individuality without putting together components. Everything is Sunyata, according to the Higher Buddhist doctrine; There is a going but no goer. There is only action but no actor. This is the meaning of Anatta. Lord Buddha says that; 



           " Comprehending thus, the Aryan disciple turns away from the body, from sensations, from perception, from mental tendencies and conditions, from consciousness. Being thus detached, he is free from desire - attachment. He is liberated, and he experiences the freedom of liberation. "





By THE BUDDHA'S Core Teachings

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