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Impermanence (. According to it, everything is constantly in flux. This changing flux excludes nothing--even planets, stars and God s. This is embodied in human life in the aging process and the cycle of birth and rebirth ( Samsara ), and in any experience of loss; because things are impermanent, attachment to them is futile, and leads to suffering. The only true end of anicca is Nirvana . Nirvana is the one Reality which knows of no change, decay or death. In the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra , all compounded, constructed things and states are said to be "impermanent" - but to say the same of Nirvana and the Buddha (the personalisation of Nirvana) is to commit a gross error in understanding and to fall into harmful misperception of Truth (as discussed in the Mahaparinirvana Sutra ). Anicca is intimately associated with the doctrine of Anatta , according to which things have no fixed nature. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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