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[[Buddhists]] hold that the only true end of [[impermanence]] is [[nibbana]], the [[Wikipedia:reality|reality]] that knows no change, decay or [[death]]. | [[Buddhists]] hold that the only true end of [[impermanence]] is [[nibbana]], the [[Wikipedia:reality|reality]] that knows no change, decay or [[death]]. | ||
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Revision as of 08:22, 21 July 2013
anicca: Inconstant; unsteady; impermanent.Anicca (Pali); impermanence is one of the essential doctrines or Three characteristics of existence in Buddhism. The term expresses the Buddhist notion that every conditioned existence, without exception, is inconstant and in flux, even gods.
According to the impermanence doctrine, human life embodies this flux in the aging process, the cycle of birth and rebirth (samsara), and in any experience of loss. The doctrine further asserts that because things are impermanent, attachment to them is futile, and leads to suffering (dukkha). Under the impermanence doctrine, all compounded and constructed things and states are impermanent.
Buddhists hold that the only true end of impermanence is nibbana, the reality that knows no change, decay or death.
Impermanence is intimately associated with the doctrine of anatta, according to which things have no fixed nature, essence, or self.
