What does «transitoriedad o impermanencia» mean in Spanish?
- Transience or impermanence, called anicca (Pāli) or anitya (Sanskrit), is one of the essential doctrines and part of three marks of existence in Buddhism. The doctrine states that all conditioned existence, without exception, is "transitory, evanescent, inconstant." All temporal things, whether material or mental, are composite objects in a continual change of condition, subject to decay and destruction. The concept of impermanence is also found in various schools of Hinduism and Jainism. Anicca or impermanence is understood in Buddhism as the first of three marks of existence, the other two being dukkha (suffering, pain, dissatisfaction) and anatta (non-self, soullessness, essencelessness). All physical and mental events, says Buddhism, are born and dissolve. Human life embodies this flow in the aging process, the cycle of repeated birth and death (Samsara), nothing lasts and everything decays. This applies to all beings and their surroundings, including beings who have reincarnated into the realms of deva (god) and naraka (hell). This contrasts with nirvana, the reality that is Nicca, or that knows no change, decay or death.