Anitya

Anitya (Sanskrit; Faded: anicca), the impermanency , is, according to the Bouddhisme, one of the Three characteristics of any thing.

According to Gautama Bouddha, impermanency proves to be the cause of the suffering, Dukkha, because what is impermanent is not satisfactory.

Impermanency is also promise of change: progress on the spiritual way is not possible that because like any thing, our state present not-waked up is impermanent.

Impermanency according to various schools

Impermanency in the Theravada

the impermanency of the things, it is the appearance, the passage and the transformation of the things or the disappearance of the things which started to be or which appeared. That means that these things never persist in the same way, but that they disappear and dissolve from one moment to another (Visuddhimagga)

With impermanency its contemplation is associated, that is to say one of the eighteen principal practices of vipassana. The traditional description of the stages of vipassana reports that of bhanga nupassana , the contemplation of the dissolution, in which meditating realizes that the phenomena do nothing but unceasingly disappear.

Impermanency in the Mahâyâna

Impermanency in the Buddhism Tibetan

In the Practical preliminaries communes of the Mahamoudra, the Dead and the impermanency are the subject of the second Méditation.

Secondly, this world and all that it contains are transitory
Particularly the life of the beings is as fragile as a bubble
the moment of our death is unforeseeable and, when it occurs, we are nothing any more but one corpse
Since it is the dharma which is beneficial for us then let us practice it with heat.

Symbol

The flower is a symbol of impermanency - opened out today, faded tomorrow - and this is why the flowers forms one of the traditional offerings to the Buddha and is almost always on the Buddhist furnace bridges.

One will note also the abundant presence of flowers in the Christian cemeteries , death being closely related to the concept of impermanency.

Bonds

Dukkha
Anatta
Three characteristics

External bonds

Sûtra of ten perceptions, concerning the contemplation of impermanency
Sûtre the world

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