Anicca er tæt forbundet med læren om [[anatta]], hvorefter tingene ikke har nogen essens, et permanent selv eller en uforanderlig sjæl. <ref name="britannicaanatta">[http://www.britannica.com/topic/anatta Anatta Buddhism], Encyclopædia Britannica (2013)</ref> <ref>[a] {{Kilde bog|efternavn=Christmas Humphreys|titel=Exploring Buddhism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3rYtmCZEIEC|år=2012|udgiver=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-22877-3|sider=42–43}}<br /><br />[b] {{Kilde bog|efternavn=Brian Morris|titel=Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PguGB_uEQh4C&pg=PA51|år=2006|udgiver=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-85241-8|sider=51}}, '''Quote:''' "(...) anatta is the doctrine of non-self, and is an extreme empiricist doctrine that holds that the notion of an unchanging permanent self is a fiction and has no reality. According to Buddhist doctrine, the individual person consists of five skandhas or heaps - the body, feelings, perceptions, impulses and consciousness. The belief in a self or soul, over these five skandhas, is illusory and the cause of suffering."<br /><br />[c] {{Kilde bog|efternavn=Richard Gombrich|titel=Theravada Buddhism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jZyJAgAAQBAJ|år=2006|udgiver=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-90352-8|side=47}}, '''Quote:''' "(...) Buddha's teaching that beings have no soul, no abiding essence. This 'no-soul doctrine' (anatta-vada) he expounded in his second sermon."</ref> [[Buddha]] sagde, at fordi intet fysisk eller mentalt objekt er permanent, forårsager begær efter eller tilknytning dertil utilfredsstillelse ([[dukkha]]). At forstå ''anicca'' og ''[[anatta]]'' er trin i buddhistens åndelige fremgang mod [[Nirvana|oplysning]]. <ref>{{Kilde bog|efternavn=Brian Morris|titel=Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PguGB_uEQh4C|år=2006|udgiver=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-85241-8|sider=51–53}}</ref> <ref name="Billington2002p56" /> <ref>{{Kilde bog|efternavn=John Whalen-Bridge|titel=Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NApdAs7dkk4C|år=2011|udgiver=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-1-4384-3921-1|sider=154–155}}</ref>
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