The three marks of existence

I stopped writing until I found an interesting topic: The three marks of existence.

I don't want to fell into the simplistic view of things; but in the Buddhism we have three states of existence: 'Annica' - Impermanence, 'Dukkha' - Dissatisfaction and 'Anatta' - No soul, people living with the illusion that they can change their lives. 

Buddha was right, 'everything is and will be contingent', which is true, I have stopped believing in the substance. At least as a state. I am not sure if we are made up of the same shit, probably yes. But that substance is certainly and absolutely subject to change. 

I don't want to believe that humans have a certain nature. But what I observe around is a chronic state of insatisfaction. What is worse is that in our world, this is something that sells perfectly. For me at least, this feeling of insatisfaction has left me as dust in the rain. It has quite a characteristic feeling in the heart, as a needle penetrating just a bit. Is something constant. I don't want to believe this can be reduced as an animal behaviour.

Not in the sense that animals behave stupidly and simple. I think this idea is reducing something we don't understand to a term we don't understand either, which is animal behaviour. What I am certain about is how Dukkha is perfectly sellable. In the modern world, the logic is that you live in this permanent insatisfying state, but when you buy something/someone, you fill that hole, and you become Anatta, which is being totally fooled.

Then, Annatta makes you feel in control, but you are actually no-self. Because nothing is and will be permanent, these stages are entirely contingent. As fast as you fill a gap on your life there is another step in the stair to reach. A new goal. A new desire, which is translated again to suffering. Nothing is permanent so the only thing that is not contingent is Annica.

Besitos,

Somnier.

Contemplación

Solo se puede contemplar el presente. Recordar el pasado es nostalgia. Y pensar el futuro es en realidad añoranza. Ambos verbos -nostalgia y añoranza- se basan en una idea que nunca existió. Una ilusión. La contemplación, por otro lado nos permite observar detenidamente los estados de la existencia mientras somos conciertes. La contemplación es donde la conciencia y los sentidos físicos se contentan para hacernos presentes con la realidad. Puede doler. O sentirse absolutamente feliz en momentos de contemplación. Es por eso que la contemplación no tiene un sentido positivo o negativo per se. La contemplación solo es cuando es. Toca sentir.