constant, permanent, enduring; invariable; (iic often: constantly, always)

…Far more freq. as anicca (adj.; aniccaṃ nt. n.) unstable impermanent, inconstant; (nt.) evanescence, inconstancy,…

állandótlan, állandótlanság

constant food, food given always.

taking food (there) always.

having a permanent, constant, fire.

adverb practically always; constantly.

constantly new; always like a newcomer.

constantly; always; perpetually.

…or, as abstract noun, aniccatā impermanence or change is the first of the three universal characteristics of existence tilakkhana, which…

Anicca-saññā: Perception of impermanence, is defined in the Girimananda Sutta A. X. 60 as meditation on the impermanence of the five clusters…

Aniccānupassanā: C ontemplation of impermanence, is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight development see: vipassanā.

…as impermanent anicca, gains the ability of faith, he, at the moment of the path to Stream-winning A1 is called a faith-devotee…

…misery and impersonality anicca dukkha anattā see: tilakkhana of all bodily and mental phenomena of existence, included in the 5 groups…

Impermanence: anicca - Contemplation of i., cf. vipassanā 1.

…of the impermanency anicca, misery dukkha see: sacca and impersonality anattā of all forms of existence. Further details, see: under…

…regard to the impermanency anicca misery dukkha and impersonality anattā, of all phenomena of existence, he finally realizes deliverance from…

…signata, are impermanency anicca, suffcring or misery dukkha see: sacca, dukkhatā no-self anattā.

Whether Perfect Ones appear in the…

Transitoriness: anicca

…Reflecting on impermanence anicca I will breathe in, thus he trains himself; reflecting on impermanence I will breathe out, thus he trains…

…(see also cuta) AN.iv.295, AN.iv.327; Snp.204, Snp.1086 (= nicca etc. Cnd.12); Dhp.225 (= sassata Dhp-a.iii.321);…

…The form agginī in phrase niccagginī can either be referred to gini (q.v.) or has to be taken as nom. of aggini (in adj. function with ī metri…

…Pts.i.20, Pts.i.96; Pts.ii.37, Pts.ii.41 sq. Pts.ii.67 sq.; Vb.194. See anicca˚, anatta˚, dukkha˚.

abstr. of anupassati, cf. Sk….

…Pāli equivalent runs anicca addhuva asassata (= appāyuka) vipariṇāma-dhamma thus inviting the conjecture that Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit…

…with dukkha & anicca-

1. as noun: SN.iii.141 (˚anupassin); SN.iv.49; SN.v.345 (˚saññin); AN.ii.52 = Pts.ii.80 (anattani anattā;…

…are given at Vin.iv.75, viz niccabhatta˚, salākabhatta˚, pakkhikaṃ, uposathikaṃ pāṭipadikaṃ
■ As part of the regulations concerning…

…above with the addition of aniccasaññā; dukkha˚, anatta˚, pahāna˚, virāga˚, nirodhasaññā thus at Ne.112, Ne.237. In the older texts we…

…SN.iv.123 SN.ii.244 (aniccaṃ, etc.); SN.iii.255 (do.), SN.iv.81, SN.iv.128 (na tumhākaṃ); Pts I.132 (aniccatṭhaṃ). Numerous others…

…(= Nibbāna) Thig.350; cp. niccala motionless Dhp-a.iii.38.

• -ācala [intens. redupl.] moving to & fro, in constant motion, unsteady…

…SN.iii.10; SN.iv.72; yaṃ aniccaṃ, etc.… tattha˚ SN.iii.122, SN.iii.177; SN.iv.145 sq.; asmī ti ch. SN.iii.130 atilīno ch. SN.v.277 sq.,…

…AN.i.170
■ niccaṃ idaṃ cittaṃ niccaṃ idaṃ mano SN.i.53; cittena niyyati loko “by thoughts the world is led” SN.i.39…

…being aware of, realizing; anicca SN.iii.1; ādīnava˚ SN.ii.194; SN.iv.332; MN.i.173; AN.v.181 sq. pariyanta˚ AN.v.50 sq.; bhaya˚ SN.v.187:…

…see nicca) “the whole of the visible world, all phenomena are evanescent etc.” SN.iii.132 sq. & passim.; diṭṭhe…

…impermanent DN.i.19 (anicca a. appāyuka); MN.i.326; SN.iv.302; Ja.i.393; Ja.iii.19 (addhuva-sīla); Vv-a.77.

• -gāmin leading to…

element. Closely related to dhamma in meaning B 1^b, only implying a closer relation to physical substance. As to its gen. connotation cp. Dhs. trsl. p. 198.

1. a primary element, of whic …

…SN.i.188; SN.ii.53 (yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ); SN.iii.112 (id.), SN.iii.67, SN.iii.180, SN.iii.222; SN.iv.28, SN.iv.48, SN.iv.129 sq.;…

…cira-kāla-ṭṭhāyin anicca vipariṇāma-dhamma Pv-a.60); DN-a.i.195; Pv-a.60 (= paritta khaṇika). 2. small, inferior, poor,…

…(jātānaṃ maccānaṃ niccaṃ maraṇato bhayaṃ); jātena maccena kattabbaṃ kusalaṃ bahuṃ Dhp.53 = Mil.333; yakkhinī jātâsi (born…

…Vin.i.14
■ as aniccaṃ SN.iii.41, SN.iii.52, SN.iii.102, SN.iii.122, SN.iii.132 sq., SN.iii.181 sq., SN.iii.195 sq.,…

…exegesis of rūpassa aniccatā: rūpassa khayo vayo bhedo Dhs.645 = Dhs.738 = Dhs.872
■ See also khīṇa and the foll. compounds s. v.:…

…Snp.73 (expl. in Nd ii.by niccakāle under sadā; but at Snp-a.128 by phāsu-kālena “in good time”); -kāle kāle from time to time, or…

to desire.

1. Objective: pleasantness, pleasure-giving, an object of sensual enjoyment.
2. Subjective: (a) enjoyment, pleasure on occasion of sense, (b) sense-desire.

Buddhist commentators exp …

…bahuādīnavo AN.v.109; as anicca dukkha, etc. MN.i.500; MN.ii.17 kāyena aṭṭiyamānā harayamānā SN.iv.62; SN.v.320 dissati imassa kāyassa…

…Snp.73 (expl. in Nd ii.by niccakāle under sadā; but at Snp-a.128 by phāsu-kālena “in good time”); -kāle kāle from time to time, or…

…Mhvs.5; or “labhamāno niccam pi khāditu-kāmo ’mhi” if I get the chance I should always like to eat Ja.i.478; and passim (cp. Pass….

…the phenomenal world are anicca, dukkha, anatta, or impermanence, suffering unreality: thus at Ja.i.48 (dhamma-desanā ti-l-˚muttā)…

…of unsteadiness and fear: niccaṃ utrastaṃ idaṃ cittaṃ (heart), niccaṃ ubbiggaṃ idaṃ mano (mind). The same…

…of unsteadiness and fear: niccaṃ utrastaṃ idaṃ cittaṃ (heart), niccaṃ ubbiggaṃ idaṃ mano (mind). The same…

…˚pphala (without fruit); niccala motion-less, ˚kkaruṇa (heartless), ˚ddosa (fault˚), ˚maṃsa (flesh˚), ˚saṃsaya (doubt˚) nirattha…

adjective steady, unchanged, steadfast; persevering Ja.i.66; Pv-a.178, Pv-a.253 (+ nicca); Snp-a.189, Snp-a.497; Vism.311.

nis + vikāra

…see nicca). aniccasaññī… bhikkhu pāpuṇāti diṭṭh’ eva dhamme nibbānaṃ AN.iv.353
■…

adjective motionless Ja.iv.2; Pv-a.95.

Sk. niścala, nis + cala

…the skin off Ja.iii.281. niccamma-gāvī “a skinless cow,” used in a well-known simile at SN.ii.99, referred to at Vism.341 &…

Err:509

continuity, permanence, only as a˚; changeableness, impermanence SN.i.61, SN.i.204 SN.iii.43; SN.iv.142 sq., SN.iv.216, SN.iv.325.

abstr. to nicca

adjective own Dāvs ii.68. Cp. niya.

Sk. nija, wth dial. j. for nitya = P. nicca

laughing, smiling, joyful, pleased Mil.297; Ja.i.411 (nicca˚ mukha), Ja.ii.179.

pp. of pahasati or ˚hassati

…of five bhojanāni, viz. niccabhatta, salākabhatta, pakkhika uposathika, pāṭipadika, Vin.i.58 = Vin.ii.175; Vin.iv.75; Ja.ii.210;…

…= Mil.418 (in formula aniccato dukkhato rogato etc., with freq.variant reading paralokato; cp AN.iv.423; Cnd.214; Pts.ii.238); SN.iii.167…

…as an enemy MN.i.435 (in “anicca”-passage); AN.iv.423; Cnd.214#ii; Pts.ii.238 Kv.400; Mil.418 and passim; in phrase parato disvā “seen as…

…Vv-a.75; Pv-a.3 (sahassaṃ sahassaṃ ˚ṃ karoti), Pv-a.97 (nicca˚); Dāvs v.66.

pari + vaya, i.e. *vyaya

…the real meaning of anicca etc and say nicca). Hence the renderings in Asl. trs “Reversion,” in Dialogues iii.28, 43, etc. “perverted…

…mañca-pītha), Vv-a.92 (niccabhatta); Pv-a.78. Esp. freq. in ster. formula paññatte āsane nisīdi he sat down on the appointed (i.e….

…trees etc.) Vv.84#14 (dumā nicca-phal’ ûpapannā not to phalu, as Kern,

Toevoegselen

s. v. phalu); Vism.120\- *amba˚*; mango\-fruit...

…and ill (anattā, anicca dukkha); e.g. rūpañ ca h’ idaṃ attā abhavissa, na y’ idaṃ rūpaṃ ābadhāya saṃvatteyya Vin.i.13,…

adjective always praised Ja.iv.101 (= nicca-pasattha C.).

sadā + thuta

in full bloom Pv.iv.12 (= niccaṃ pupphita Pv-a.275).

saṃ + pupphita

…the sevenfold perception, anicca-anatta-, asubha-, ādīnava-, pahāna-, virāga-, and nirodha-saññā, DN.ii.79; cp. AN.iii.79; the…

one of the most difficult terms in Buddhist metaphysics, in which the blending of the subjective-objective view of the world and of happening peculiar to the East, is so complete, that it is almost i …

…(atta˚, attaniya˚, niccabhāva˚).

• -pakāsana the gospel of emptiness DN-a.i.99, DN-a.i.123; *…

praised Dhs-a.198; Ja.iv.101 (sada˚ = sadā thuto niccapasattho); Mil.278 (vaṇṇita th. pasattha).

cp. pp. of thavati

Vaya¹ & vayo

neuter age, especially young age, prime, youth; meaning “old age” when characterized as such or contrasted to youth (the ord. term for old age being jarā). …

…as “destruction”): aniccatā sankhārānaṃ etc., vipariṇāma virāga nirodha, e.g. SN.iii.43; (as “ceasing fading away”:)…

…use e.g. SN.iii.44 (yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ); Iti.59 (yad eva diṭṭhaṃ tad ev’ âhaṃ vadāmi). 2. as adv., e.g. yad-agge…

…ibid.), or may refer to the Yamaka-sutta with its discussion of anicca, dukkha, anatta.

fr. yama³

…& conviction (such as aniccaṃ anattā dukkhaṃ: Mil.42); whereas ñ. is relative to common experience (see Cnd.235#3 under cakkhumā, & on…

…Pār. Vin.i.1, 6 as acala, niccala, i.e. motionless. This cpd. is indicated below by (p.) after the reference
■ The various spellings of the…