Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta.
#WednesdayWisdom
The Three Marks of Existence or Three Universal Truths in Buddhism help us to understand the truth of reality and bring ourselves to liberation from suffering and ultimately to Nibbana. It goes against the grain for us to correct the wrong views which we have always held but we can start to chip away by altering our understanding little by little.
Anicca — impermanence, change. Everything is ‘uncertain’ — this is a rule which can be relied upon. Take the body and mind which are always with us. Our body has been changing since the moment we were born and will continue to do so until it breaks down and dies. How many times does our mind change its view during a single day? We can watch the body and the mind and reflect upon this.
Dukkha — dis-satisfaction, discontent, what we like and dislike. It is our wanting and not wanting — desire and aversion, greed and hatred — which is the cause through which we create suffering in our own minds. The mind gets so wrapped up in the things that annoy it and make it upset. We can’t let them go can we and so we suffer. This mostly comes from us wanting experiences or people to be ‘other than they are’ but we can’t change nature and we can’t change our family, partner, colleagues etc. We have to learn to accept things as they are.
“If we could admit to the fact that the…
