Grand Unified Dharma Table

Simplified Language	Sri Lankan Buddhism	Mahayana Buddhism
	Anicca: Inability to maintain anything to one's satisfaction, hence losing interest in the worthless.	Impermanence
	Anatta: A "me" exists as long as there is still craving for the worldly. It is impossible to force the mind to accept that there is no "me".	Anatta: Inter-being as no independent existence, which is realized when ignorance is uprooted.
	Dukkha: A hidden suffering behind an illusion of an apparent happiness that is current or to be had. Giving up in doing the impossible leads to happiness.
Karma-originating pleasures don't create more karma.	kamma-vipāka doesn't generate new karma.	Arising feelings of pleasure do not generate new karma.
Craving for pleasure creates more karma (speech sankhara)	Mentally-made craving (assāda) generate more vacī-sankhāra (conscious thinking).	When a pleasurable experience is clung onto, it perfumes karmic seeds of pleasure into the Alaya storehouse.
Karma-ripening experiences cannot be controlled.	We have no control over manō sankhāra (unconscious thinking)	The Alaya storehouse releases karmic seeds when causes and conditions are ripe, manifesting also as the six sense inputs.
When these involuntary experiences arise, you can still control your mental commentary and subsequent actions.	We have control over vacī and kāya sankhāra, and this is the key to changing our defiled gathi.	We have control over the Sixth Consciousness, by choosing to remain in Direct, Illusory or Comparative Perception.
	We have physical-body (aharaja) & mental-body (utuja, kammaja, cittaja). Mental is also called gandhabba /tirokudda.
	Gandhabba merges with the formation of a zygote during fertilisation.	Spirit comes together with sperm and egg to form the embryo.
	jivitindriya maintains life, so even if gandhabba leaves, life is still present.
	Five kkhandhas.	All phenomena are Mind-Only.