We don’t really need to know the exact meaning of the words in the most accurate form in order to attain Nibbana( obviously it’s very helpful to understand the truth, but after that it can be explained by an ariya without using complex terms and in any language)
It’s all about Understanding and Realising, the true Nature of the Mind and Sansara.
Read this and I won’t use any pali terms. I would try my best.
Everything is subject to Cause and Effect. Everything is a Manifestation.
Let’s take the example of Fire.
We need oxygen, wood, and temperature as causes and the combination of all three in the right amount as the condition. It would manifest a fire. As long as the causes and conditions are there, the fire would continue to Manifest.
In order to Cease the fire from arising, Change the cause or condition . Now the fire won’t manifest.
The fire was being Manifested every moment and then it was ceasing, but the causes and conditions were still there, so again manifestation and then cessation.
There was no One Continuous Fire!
Try to slow down the time and imagine it. Every moment the causes and conditions manifesting a fire. But the process is so fast , it appears as if there is one single fire.
This is Anicca. This applies to everything, even to the mind. Our ignorant mind feels as Self the same way it felt that the Fire is One and Is the Same fire burning. The mind likes to make Entities.
For Anatta, I understand it as nothing is worth holding onto, nothing has value in this Sansara.
Let’s the example of a Hungry dog eating a bone.
The dog would smell meat in that bone because of some residue and would start to lick it. Now the dog is convinced that this flavour is in the bone. It licks and eats it and also crushes it. After sometime the broken pieces of the Bone damage the gums of the dog and its gums start to bleed.
The foolish dog now believes that this tasty blood is in this bone. So it would continue to eat it, not being able to satisfy his hunger, his craving and also causing damage to itself.
Enjoying it’s own destruction!
In the same way us beings also find value in the Sansaric Phenomena. Sensuality, materialistic possession, etc. Here the Pleasure cycle works that gives us nothing of Value but degrades our mentality more and more causing nothing but misery.
Dukkha would simply not realising the above and therefore experiencing every horror possible. Fear, anger, desire, mental fatigue, depression, anxiety, confusion.
I hope I could explain it some extent.
These understandings can take time, it depends on the individuals mind and practice.
