Anicca Sanna is enough to attain Nibbana (AN 7.66)

Christian,
Please provide a link to the Pali version when you refer to a sutta.

I looked up AN 7.66 and get a different sutta: Satta­sūriya ­sutta (AN 7.66)

P.S.
Also, please don’t copy and paste whole suttas if they are long. Just paste the relevant part and explain why it is important (if needed).

In Patisambhidamagga, Treatise on Liberation, it is explained that dependend on ones abilities one will be naturally attracted to contemplating or on anicca, or on dukkha or on anatta.

Contemplating anicca is related to strong faculty of faith.
Contemplating dukkha is related to strong faculty of concentration.
Contemplating anatta is related to great wisdom faculty.

Contemplating anatta is the same as contemplating sunnata (also ToL, Patisambhidamagga).
By the way Nanamoli translated anatta as not-self, anicca as impermanence and dukkha as pain.

The effect of those contemplation is that one turns the mind away from the conditioned. Passion in regard to conditioned phenomena and states weaken. If this happens cognizance enters the signless, wishless, emptiness principle.

I think those are names for the unconditioned?

Siebe

Siebe wrote: “By the way Nanamoli translated anatta as not-self, anicca as impermanence and dukkha as pain.”

Those are very bad translations: “Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta“

I have a friend who has MS. If you have that illness and you still are very passionate, still wanting/demanding that you can walk, eat everything, urinate, drink, etc. you live a nightmare. Strong Tanha makes us demanding. Becoming demanding life becomes a nightmare because reality does not listen to our demands.

Somehow she manages it to deal with the fact she cannot walk anymore, not use her right arm, not urinate (she has a catheter) etc. Recently she is only allowed to swallow drinks which are thickened, like cream-structure. Even coffee she eats with a spoon. She keeps surprising me, because she does not feel aversion to all this. She enjoys the coffee eating with a spoon. I am very glad about this. Being sick is one thing, but being in constant conflict with reality is even worse to see.

It is amasing how she deals with all this. Now for more then 20 years. I think i would have become mad or very depressed. Ofcourse that worries me, because i am of the nature of decay and loss too.

It also shows how tanha starts working against you. The stronger tanha is, the more you suffer. Tanha in essence comes down to conflict with reality.

We are happy when things are under controll and go according wish and plans. I think this is 90% of our happiness. And almost all of us become frustated when it does not.

One day one sees the danger in this demanding mentallity. One sees the danger of tanha.
Even when one does not belief in rebirth one can see how tanha is cause of suffering.

Siebe