2. three marks

• skandha 1: perceptions


  recognition/interpretation of sense objects followed by mental labelling-. mind catches up with an experience and applies a label to it.

  involves process of coneptualising our sense data and labelling objects as mental or physical
• skanha 2: feeling/sensation


  direct experience, through the senses, of the physical world-. simplest= like, dislike or indifference.

  hedonic tone-> "taste" of any experience. in buddhism, mind is also a sense which apprehends thoughts and feelings.
• skanha 3: consciousness


  awareness and presence of an object looking at the colour blue, mind recognises it's a colour but doesn't identify it as blue.

  seeing isn't the same as recognising, average human experience downloads the storehousse of past experiences and concepts which can obscure the direct experience of the first skandha
• skandha 4: mental formations


  ethical behaviour->volitional mental actions, triggered by an object that produce karma

  covers mental conditioning (habits) that result from karma gained in this life and previous lives. some volitions and ethically neutral, skilful or unskilful.
• skandha 5: body/matter


  material aspect of existence eg external physical world or human body

  made of 4 basic elements, solidity/matter(earth), cohesion(water), energy(fire), motion (wind)-> from this interaction everything is composed
• the chariot analogy-> explain anatta


  Nagasena asks what a chariot is; the axle? the wheels? the wooden frame? the yoke or the reins?

  answer= none of these things constitute as a chariot.

  the king states that all of these things dependence on te others parts make up a chariot

  a chariot is simply a concept, if we destroy all the parts then is doesnt exist therefore is has a conditioned existence.