Search results for: "The Three Characteristics"

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  2. Abusing Pleasure & Pain
     … There’s the simple pain and stress that comes from the three characteristics. In other words, anything that’s fabricated like the body or the mind—any of the khandhas or aggregates—is going to involve some stress simply by virtue of the fact that it’s fabricated. That’s part of the natural order of things. But there’s also a deeper stress … 
  3. A Pure Happiness
     … Are they satisfactory? If they’re not, what can you do to make them better? When the Buddha talks about suffering and especially emphasizes, say, the three characteristics that things are inconstant, stressful and not-self: It’s in the watching side that these teachings play their role. In other words, you do something and the question is, “How long-lasting is the happiness … 
  4. The Sublime Attitudes
     … You can talk about discernment, you can describe the three characteristics, the five khandhas, the six sense-spheres, dependent co-arising, emptiness, all these wonderful concepts; you can talk about them, but if they can’t help you make the right decision when you’re faced with a hard decision, your discernment’s useless. Useful discernment is the type that enables you to talk … 
  5. Preparing to Die Well
     … So you see in these first three summaries a parallel between, on the one side, the three characteristics or three perceptions of inconstancy, stress, and not-self; and on the other side the three deva messengers: aging, illness, and death. Death is the big not-self teaching. There are so many things we hold onto in life that, as death comes, we have to … 
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