The Buddha achieved enlightenment. He avoided the two extremes of self indulgence, (which represses spiritual progress) and self-mortification, (which weakens the intellect) , and instead discovered and followed the Middle Path, (Majjhima Patipada) which led to his enlightenment...Thereafter he taught until his death.
Whether the Tathagatas (Buddha's) appear or not, O Bhikkus (Monks), it remains a fact, an established principle, a natural law that all conditioned things are transient (anicca), sorrowful (dukkha) and th at everything is without self(anatta).
Sabbe sankhara anicca-all conditioned things are impermanent, transient.
Sabbe sankhara dukkha- all conditioned things are sorrowful, unsatisfactory.
Sabba sankhara annatta- all phenomena are without ego, self, substance.
Anicca- "Impermancy is the rising, passing away and changing of things, or the disappearance of things that have become or arisen. The meaning is that these things never persist in the same way, but that they are dissolving and vanishing from moment to moment." (Visuddhi Magga)
Dukkha- "Is the unsatisfactory nature of all conditioned phenomena. These are all liable to suffering because of their impermanence. Birth is suffering, decay is suffering,, death is suffering, to be united with unpleasant is suffering, to be separated from the pleasant is suffering, to not get what one desires is suffering,. In brief the 5 Aggregates of attachment are suffering." (Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, Sutta Pitaka) (The first discourse of the Buddha.)
Anatta- "There is no self-existing, real ego identity, nor a soul, nor any other abiding substance. The Buddha is known as Annatta-Vadi or the "teacher of impersonality" since this is a teaching unique to Buddhism.
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