Reply To: Discourse 2 – Icca, Nicca, Anicca

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Hello!

Is it correct to say that Anicca also refers to our inability to stay satisfied with anything in this world for a long time?
Something like: There is nothing in this world that can keep you satisfied for a long time.

I liked this example:
“For example, an item made of gold or a diamond can last millions of years. But neither can be kept to “our satisfaction” since we will have to give them up when we die.”

Something came to my mind like: Even if I buy a diamond that I want so much, I’ll get satisfied for a shor period of time, probably after some time keeping it with me I’ll get bored with it, and than start to crave for a bigger one, or even use it to buy something that I will start craving after getting bored of it trying to be satisfied and get stuck at a infinity loop even at this lifetime… I crave, I keep satisfied for getting it, I get bored of it, I crave for something else, I keep satisfied for gerring it, I get bored of it, I crave for someth…

The Bhuddha lived with all the material things someone could crave before leaving the palace…
Even with everything he had, the gratest material things that a person could have and crave at that era, he felt hollow, empty, depressed and left that life craving for something that could fill that emptiness…
That makes me thing that one possible conclusion of his could be: There is nothing in this world that could keep you satisfied for long (anicca), so you will always get frustrated, unsatisfied (Dukkha), and this frustration will get you depressed, hollow, empty, helpless (anatta)…

The solution to this problem, this humam nature (desire, craving and inability to stay satisfied) that condemn us to eternal frustration was found by him through introspection… Only through profound internal changes we can stay satisfied for long time, not looking or craving at external things, he had everything and felt hollow, he knew this doesn’t work, so he found the solution through ceasing the disire and creaving, getting satisfied the whole time independent of external things…