ultimate reality

anicca

imperpanence - everything is in a constant state of flux

sunyata

mahayana doctrine of emptiness

if everything is always changing, nothing has a fixed or permanent soul,eg. a whirlwind looks like a ‘thing’ but if the wind stops and dust settles, ‘whirlwind’ is really gone.- it exists only bc of other factors

nirvana

blowing out of greed of fire-its not a place like heaven but more of a state

the 80th dilema of the king milinda

kings asks how nirvana is eral if we cant see or point to it,the monk nagasena explains that just beacause you cant see the ind dosnt mean its not real.

nirvana is indescribable because it is beyond normal language of ‘things’ and ‘time’