Editing Three marks of existence (section)

===Anicca===
{{Main|Impermanence}}
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.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/topic/anicca Anicca Buddhism], Encyclopædia Britannica (2013).</ref> Human life embodies this flux in the aging process and the cycle of repeated birth and death ([[Saṃsāra (Buddhism)|Samsara]]); nothing lasts, and everything decays. This is applicable to all beings and their environs, including beings who are [[Rebirth (Buddhism)|reborn]] in [[Deva (Buddhism)|deva]] ([[deity|god]]) and [[naraka]] (hell) realms.<ref name=damienkeown32>{{cite book|author=Damien Keown |title=Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_QXX0Uq29aoC |year=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-966383-5 |pages=32–8}}</ref><ref name="Harvey2012p46">{{cite book|author=Peter Harvey|title=An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u0sg9LV_rEgC|year=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-85942-4|pages=32–33, 38–39, 46–49}}</ref> This is in contrast to [[nirvana]], the reality that is ''nicca'', or knows no change, decay or death.<ref name="DavidsStede1921p355">{{cite book|author1=Thomas William Rhys Davids |author2=William Stede |title=Pali-EnC |year=1921 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-1144-7 |pages=355, Article on ''Nicca''}}</ref>