DOORS
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. — Aldous Huxley
DOORS is an NFT series exploring the idea of transmutation illustrated from the perspective of a digital human asset, or “avatar” on a journey toward impermanence.
DOOR 01 Dukkha — Adversity
Dukkha (Sanskrit duhkha) means “unsatisfactoriness, suffering, pain”.[16][17][18] The dukkha includes the physical and mental sufferings that follow each rebirth, aging, illness, dying; dissatisfaction from getting what a being wishes to avoid or not getting the desired, and no satisfaction from Sankhara dukkha, in which everything is conditioned and conditioning, or because all things are not experienced as impermanent and without any essence.[16][19][20]
DOOR 02 Anatta — Apathy
Anatta (Sanskrit anatman) refers to the doctrine of “non-self”, that there is no unchanging, permanent Self or soul in living beings and no abiding essence in anything or phenomena.[21][22]
While anicca and dukkha apply to “all conditioned phenomena” (saṅkhārā), anattā has a wider scope because it applies to all dhammā without “conditioned, unconditioned” qualification.[23] Thus, nirvana too is a state of “without Self” or anatta.[23] The phrase “sabbe dhamma anatta” includes within its scope each skandha (aggregate, heap) that compose any being, and the belief “I am” is a mark of conceit which must be destroyed to end all Dukkha.[24] The Anattā doctrine of Buddhism denies that there is anything called a ‘Self’ in any person or anything else, and that a belief in ‘Self’ is a source of Dukkha.[25][26] Some Buddhist traditions and scholars, however, interpret the anatta doctrine to be strictly in regard to the five aggregates rather than a universal truth.[27][28][29] Religious studies scholar Alexander Wynne calls anattā a “not-self” teaching rather than a “no-self” teaching.[30]
DOOR 03 Anicca — Impermanence
Anicca — Impermanence (Pali anicca, Sanskrit anitya) means that all things (saṅkhāra) are in a constant state of flux. Buddhism states that all physical and mental events come into being and dissolve.[12] Human life embodies this flux in the aging process and the cycle of repeated birth and death (Samsara); nothing lasts, and everything decays. This is applicable to all beings and their environs, including beings who are reborn in deva (god) and naraka (hell) realms.[13][14] This is in contrast to nirvana, the reality that is nicca, or knows no change, decay or death.[15]
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Information reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_marks_of_existence