What are the three marks of existence?

What are the three marks of existence?

Tricycle - Buddhism for Beginners

impermanence (anicca), suffering or dissatisfaction (dukkha), and not-self (anatta)

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The three marks of existence: life is suffering, everything is impermanent, and everything is empty.

The Scribly Gun Sutra

by Geoff Dawson, April 19, 2024 

Ordinary Mind School of Sydney

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Here’s what the Buddhist idea of anattā teaches about letting goJournal January 23, 2023

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Journal May 2, 2015

Most non-Buddhists continue to follow their own religion inherited from their families. Yet many adopt a variety of Buddhist approaches to solving some of life’s more difficult challenges. The lay psychology literature, for example, is filed with Buddhist concepts and methods for training

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impermanence (anicca),  subject to decay 

suffering or dissatisfaction (dukkha),                                        unsatisfactoriness

not-self (anatta) no fixed identity 

Benefits,

- nature of existence, cultivate equinimity,  let go of attachments and aversions, develop insight 

Shikantaza The Scribly Gun Sutra

just with to begin by sharing with you, the practice that do, nearly all the time during session Shikantaza, just sitting just open awareness. I never did it for years and years. And I did breath counting and labeling and koan practice. But Shikantaza in a sense is, if I could say that, the purest form of zen meditation that you could do because it's such a direct experience of reality, of moment-to-moment reality. And the other forms of meditation all have their benefit. And as you know, I really encourage people to start with breath counting and to do labeling and to do koan practice.

But with those other practices like with breath counting, as valuable as it is, it's a preliminary practice to focus the mind, there's a linear sense of achieving something. You've got a structure and and you're aim to keep counting the numbers and stay on focus.

The Scribly Gun Sutra

by Geoff Dawson, April 19, 2024 Ordinary Mind School of Sydney