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3 MARKS OF EXISTENCE

The Three Marks of Existence are an essential Buddhist teaching

regarding the nature of experience that rules all conditioned things.
This means that every sensation, thought, and experience we have

is subject to these three rules.

ANNICA - impermanence

Everything changes. Nothing is permanent or everlasting. What
arises will also fall. Breath, body, emotions, identities, cravings.

This is a simple concept to understand and quite excruciating in

practice.

Evolutionarily, our system is designed to experience finite
pleasure and satisfaction so that we will be propelled to keep

reaching. It's intelligent for procreation’s objective but doesn’t

leave us with a great outcome for personal and lasting

happiness. We will be full then we will be hungry again. We will
be sexually satisfied but not for long. We can get high, but we

can't, despite our best efforts, make it last.

However, a visceral understanding of this allows for us to be

more fluid in life - to embrace change (or at least allow it) rather
than resist it,

"In three words I can sum up

everything I've learned about life: It goes on."

-Robert Frost

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