Conditioned vs Unconditioned | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | Sankhata/Asankhata Lakkhanani AN 3.47

Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts · Dec 8, 2022 · 26m

Ajahn Dhammasiha offers some reflections on the three characteristics of all conditioned phenomena, versus the three characteristics of the Unconditioned .

3 Qualities of all conditioned phenomena (sankhata-lakkhaṇāni):

Coming into existence can be discerned

Passing away can be discerned

Change while persisting can be discerned

3 Qualities of the Unconditioned (asankhata-lakkhaṇāni):

No coming into existence can be discerned

No passing away can be discerned

No change while persisting can be discerned

(Anguttara Nikāya/Numerical Discourses, Book of Threes, #47 & #48)

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