Three marks of existence

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Anicca

Buddhists believe this principal applies to everything

It is the principle of impermanence

Everything changes, nothing is permanent

Your not the same person as when you were younger, your not even the same person as you were a minute ago

You will be different when you are older

Anatta

Buddhists believe that because these things change from one moment to the next, they are an illusion, the 'me' 'I' or 'self' simply does not exist

There is no such thing as the 'self'

Dukkah

Buddhists believe we suffer because we constantly try to satisfy the desires of the self

When we do not get what we want, we suffer

When we get what we do not want, we suffer

Even when we get what we want, we will always want again, and so we suffer

Nothing is capable of bringing satisfaction

Anicca

anatta

dukkah