three marks of existence according to conditioned arising and shunyata
...lized around the concept that nothing in this world is permanent; everything is different in some way, shape, or form, with every second that ticks by on the clock. Anatman, the second mark of existence, applies the rules of anitya to the self, and therefore destroys it. The Buddhist doctrines hold that the spiritual side of a human is void because it isn’t the same thing as it was the millisecond before. Anatman is what is says it is, the opposite of the Atman. The third mark of existence, dukka, means suffering, that is, all the things we put up with that are considered to be “just part of life”. The existence of these three pillars gives birth to the concept of conditioned arising, which states that everything that happens or exists, exists because of conditions brought on by somet...