Teachings

Three characteristics

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

Form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness are the five bases of clinging.

Phenomena arise and cease according to conditions; the twelve-link sequence explains the arising and cessation of suffering.

Intentional actions of body, speech, and mind have consequences according to their ethical quality.

After death, continued existence arises according to conditions without a permanent self passing from one life to another.

Nibbāna is the ending of greed, hatred, and delusion: release from suffering and rebirth.

Ten mental bonds bind beings to repeated existence.