Anicca,Anatta,Dukkha Flashcards
Anicca K
Anicca is the doctrine of impermanence all life is constantly changing nothing remains the same.
Some things change so quickly that they appear to be permanent like fruit. Others change so slowly, they too appear to stay the same like granite.
Life itself changes all the time the only thing that doesn’t change is impermanence itself.
Anicca Quotes
These grey-white dried bones like dried empty gourds thrown away at the end of summer.
This source could be interpreted to suggest that only through the development of wisdoms which can be achieved through meditation and personal effort might one begin to see the true nature of Anicca
Anicca purpose
The purpose of accepting Anicca is to allow you to see existence for how it really it is rather that how it appears to be
What illusion does Anicca create
The illusion of permanent is very strong. Leading humans to have a false sense of permanence. Once you accept that all life is impermanent, you will be free from suffering
Dukkha K
Life is full of suffering, unsatisfactory and unfulfilling - reading this is understanding dukkha.
Suffering is caused by constantly craving love,happiness once we stop craving we will be free from suffering.
Experience of suffering - physical impermanence and change built in to being alive and embodied.
Dukkha Quote
How can there be laughter, how can there be pleasures when the whole world is suffering.
This source could be interpreted to suggest that suffering is inherent to our human existence- and yet we continue to enjoy the small pleasures in life and carry or regardless mostly in ignorance.
Purpose of Dukkha
The purpose of accepting Dukkha is to allow Buddhists to see reality for how it really is rather than how it looks to be. This means Buddhists will have a better understanding of life’s true nature and they won’t be surprised when suffering occurs.
Anatta k
Anatta us the doctrine of no self no soul- since nothing is permanent there can be no immortal self.
Nothing is fixed about your identity.
Anatta Quote
Consider this body! A painted puppet with joined limbs sometimes suffering and with ulcers fill of imaginings never permanent for ever changing.
This source could be interpreted it suggests that our suffering is directly aligned to our longing for permanence in our ‘self’ and that thus longing is like a disease preventing our spiritual breakthrough and causing our suffering
Anatta purpose
The purpose of accepting Anatta is to allow Buddhists to stop putting ‘me’ at the centre as this only leads to selfish behaviour
