Friends:
The Three Characteristics of all Worldly Phenomena:
All form is unstable, falling apart, transient & inevitably vanishing!
Therefore is all form fragile, frustrating, & ultimately disappointing!
Therefore is all form ownerless, not what I am, nor-mine-nor-self!
All feeling is unsteady, disintegrating, temporary & just fading away!
Therefore is all feeling feeble, annoying, & really painful suffering!
Therefore is all feeling unkeepable, alien, not-me-nor-mine-nor-self!
All perception is fickle, collapsing, transitory & quickly disappearing!
Therefore is all perception frail, bothering, & never quite enough!
Therefore is all perception foreign, strange, not-me-nor-mine-nor-self!
All construction is insecure, subsiding, ephemeral & always leaving!
Therefore is all construction brittle, irksome, & invariably inadequate!
Therefore is all construction impersonal and not-me-nor-mine-nor-self!
All consciousness is momentary, fleeting, passing, evanescent & lost!
Therefore is all consciousness insubstantial, tedious, & quite miserable!
Therefore is all consciousness egoless, remote & not-me-nor-I-nor-self!
Thus seeing, thus knowing, thus assured, and clearly comprehending, but
shattered, and disgusted, yet still calm, cool & collected, one gradually
stops taking up & accumulating these things, since only fools pick up pain!
One instead Relinquishes! This -only & exactly this release by letting go-
is the liberating escape from all suffering, be it past, future or present!
The Blessed Buddha said:
Whether Perfect Ones appear in the world, or whether Perfect Ones do not
appear in the world, this still remains the same condition, an immutable fact
and a fixed regular nature-law: That all constructions are impermanent, that
all constructions are subject to suffering, that everything is without a
self.
Anguttara Nikaya III 134
Constructions are all impermanent:
When he sees thus with understanding
And turns away from what is ill,
That is the path to purity.
Constructions are all suffering:
When he sees thus with understanding
And turns away from what is ill,
That is the path to purity.
Things are all not self:
When he sees thus with understanding
And turns away from what is ill,
That is the path to purity.
Dhammpada 277-79
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