Study Aid #24 Buddhist Beliefs Buddha: Fully enlightened being who can show others the way; Gautama Buddha, the teaching Buddha of our age. Dukkha: Suffering born of longing for permanence and eternal essence. Anicca: Impermanence. Recognition of constant change. Anatta: No-self. All is vanity. Paticca samuppada: Conditioned existence, fueled by thirst for being. Nirvana: Unconditioned emptiness. The Fourth Noble Truth, the Noble Eightfold Path, implicitly acknowledges that most of us do not become
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