Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Anicca? Anatta?

Today, I went to Brickfield MahaVihara. I was sitting quietly in the hall, start meditating, the word of anicca come into my mind, what is anicca? how anicca helps to our endless happiness? Thinking and thinking, the below should be my answer....

What is anicca?
Changing is anicca.

What is anatta?
non-self is anatta.

what changing means?

Changing is the impermanent of the things.


What non- self means?

Non-self is the uncontrolled of the things (because things arisen from various conditions).


Changing tells us we can change the matter if we putting in good effort or bad effort.

Non- self tells us we are hard to change the matter because we can not control the things.


Things arise depends on many conditions and reasons.

It is not come arisen unconditionally.


It is not cause by only one condition and reason.

It is not stand alone without changing.


It can be changed but hard to be changed.

Thus, What the anicca and anatta trying to tell us?

Thus, How can we make use by understanding anicca and anatta?

They are just a phenomenon, they are telling us something...

But how we are going to use them to achieve endless happiness?


Patticasamupadda bring us the message of dependent of origin.

Everything is dependent on each another.

Changing and non- self come together in mind for one object/ subject when it arises.

It arises because it is changing, it is arises because the conditions of the object/ subject change.


So, how are we going to applied these into our path to endless happiness (nirvana)?
What is your opinion?

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