4 marks of Buddhism

[Alexander Nigma]

-Impermanence: Impermanence (Pali anicca, Sanskrit anitya) means that all conditioned things (saṅkhāra) are in a constant state of flux. Buddhism states that all physical and mental events come into being and dissolve. Human life embodies this flux in the aging process and the cycle of repeated birth and death (Samsara); nothing lasts, and everything decays. This is applicable to all beings and their environs, including beings who are reborn in deva(god) and naraka (hell) realms. This is in contrast to nirvana, the reality that is nicca, or knows no change, decay or death, because an enlightened being doesn’t know other thing than the present moment, the difference between permanence and impermanence vanishes as the whole universe become one as the ultimate reality is perceived.

 

-Suffering: Dukkha (Sanskrit duhkha) means "unsatisfactoriness, suffering, pain". The dukkha includes the physical and mental sufferings that follows each rebirth, aging, illness, dying; dissatisfaction from getting what a being wishes to avoid or not getting the desired, and no satisfaction from Sankhara dukkha, in which everything is conditioned and conditioning, or because all things are not experienced as impermanent and without any essence.

 

-Emptiness: No-thing is SELF(spirit). Spirit is the unitive consciousness, the infinity that can be accessed while on earth. 

 

-No-self: Anatta (Sanskrit anatman) refers to the doctrine of "non-self", that there is no unchanging, permanent Self or soul in living beings and no abiding essence in anything or phenomena. 
While anicca and dukkha apply to "all conditioned phenomena" (saṅkhārā), anattā has a wider scope because it applies to all dhammā without "conditioned, unconditioned" qualification. Thus, nirvana too is a state of "without Self" or anatta. The phrase "sabbe dhamma anatta" includes within its scope each skandha (aggregate, heap) that compose any being, and the belief "I am" is a mark of conceit which must be destroyed to end all Dukkha. The Anattā doctrine of Buddhism denies that there is anything called a 'Self' in any person or anything else, and that a belief in 'Self' is a source of Dukkha(suffering)

REALIZATIONS TIED TO THE 4 MARKS, THE 4 GOLDEN RULES

1: Everything is impermanent

2: Suffering is caused by earthly attachement & fear of death in every way shape or form thus the lack of understanding of your true nature

3: Emptiness aka infinite possibilities is the ultimate structure of reality & who you truly are at your core

4: Nothing is you, you are God, an eternal shape shifter that as no official shape or form, a god that can take infinite forms & play the cosmic game for eternity