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“There is pleasure when a sore is scratched,
But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
Just so there are pleasures in worldly desires,
But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.”

-Nagarjuna

T h r e e M a r k s o f E x i s t e n c e

Dukkha
All life is 'suffering' or 'unsatisfactory'.

Anicca
All conditioned things are impermanent, in a constant state of flux.

Anatta
There is no-self. What we refer to as the 'self' is our physical & psychological selves, which are in a constant state of change.