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# Three characteristics

Conditioned things are impermanent and unsatisfactory; all phenomena are not-self.

- Impermanence: conditioned things arise, change, and cease.
- Unsatisfactoriness: what changes cannot provide lasting security.
- Not-self: no phenomenon can rightly be taken as a permanent self or possession.

Seeing these characteristics directly leads to disenchantment, dispassion, and release.

## Relevant suttas

- SN 22.59 — The Characteristic of Not-Self (read here)
- Listen to SN 22.59 (Candana Bhikkhu audio · 14:18)

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