The Buddha
You see how much suffering comes from wanting and holding on. Letting go of craving, and even of a fixed self, sounds to you like freedom.
“All conditioned things are impermanent — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
What you’d believe
- The Four Noble TruthsLife involves suffering; its cause is craving; it can cease; and the Eightfold Path leads to that cessation.
- Anatta (no-self)There is no permanent, unchanging self or soul; a person is a changing stream of processes (the five aggregates).
- Impermanence and dependent originationAll conditioned things are impermanent and arise in dependence on causes and conditions.
