The Three Marks of Existence

• Ordinary (dukkha-dukkha)
• Produced by change (anicca-dukkha)
• Produced by conditioned states (anatta-dukkha)
• Concealed suffering (patticchanna-dukkha) - DD
• Exposed suffering (apatticchanna-dukkha) - DD
• My body and my name (pariyaya-dukkha) - DD
• The essence of my being (nippariyaya-dukkha) - DD

• Greed - pig
• Hatred - snake
• Delusion - rooster

Ordinary suffering

• Nature is suffering
• Life is suffering
• It is dreaded by all human beings

Produced by change

• Everyone experiences pleasurable physical sensations and joyful states of mind
• Howver, they don't last and sometimes when they end we are filled with despair and misery
• Intense joy followed by intense despair because conditions change
• Anicca means everything is always changing
• All compound things only exist when certain factors come together but they consequently separate

Buddha defined two levels of anicca:

• Gross
  Gross level of change which we can observe with our own eyes e.g. seasons, weather, age, social, historical, geographical
• Momentary
  Momentary level of change where everything is in a state of flux
  These are subtle changes which can't necessarily be observed by the naked eye
  Buddha gained this special insight during meditation