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sabbe dhammā anattā – all dharmas (conditioned or unconditioned things) have no unchanging self or soul; The northern Buddhist Sarvāstivāda tradition meanwhile has the following in their Samyukta Agama: [9] [12] All conditioned things are impermanent (sarvasaṃskārā anityāḥ) All dharmas are non-self (sarvadharmā anātmānaḥ)
Impermanence, called anicca (Pāli) or anitya (Sanskrit), appears extensively in the Pali Canon [1] as one of the essential doctrines of Buddhism. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The doctrine asserts that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is "transient, evanescent, inconstant". [ 1 ]
This "conditioned things" sense of the word Saṅkhāra appears in Four Noble Truths and in Buddhist theory of dependent origination, that is how ignorance or misconceptions about impermanence and non-self leads to Taṇhā and rebirths. [19] The Samyutta Nikaya II.12.1 presents one such explanation, [19] as do other Pali texts. [20]
Impermanence, called anicca (Pāli) or anitya (Sanskrit), appears extensively in the Pali Canon [1] as one of the essential doctrines of Buddhism. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The doctrine asserts that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is "transient, evanescent, inconstant".
All conditioned things (saṃskāra) are impermanent and duḥkha, and that all conditioned and unconditioned things are without self (see trilaksana). We accept the thirty-seven qualities conducive to enlightenment (bodhipakṣadharma) as different aspects of the Path taught by the Buddha leading to Enlightenment.
It is one of the three characteristics of all existence, together with dukkha (suffering, dissatisfaction) and anicca (impermanence). [8] Anattā is synonymous with Anātman (an + ātman) in Sanskrit Buddhist texts. [9] In some Pali texts, ātman of Vedic texts is also referred to with the term Attan, with the sense of "soul". [8]
By following the Noble Eightfold Path, to moksha, liberation, [84] restraining oneself, cultivating discipline, and practicing mindfulness and meditation, one starts to disengage from craving and clinging to impermanent states and things, and rebirth and dissatisfaction will be ended.
A value of Buddhism is the idea of impermanence. All living things, causes, conditions, situations are impermanent. [94] Impermanence is the idea that all things disappear once they have originated. According to Buddhism, Impermanence occurs constantly "moment to moment", [95] and this is why there is no recognition of the self. [96]