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  2. Skillful Selfing
     … The path that did work was to focus his desires on taking these aggregates, these raw materials from which we create our sense of self—the form of your body, feelings, perceptions, thought fabrications, and consciousness: taking these things that we normally grab onto to create a sense of self in a particular becoming, and turning them into a path. Even though there may … 
  3. Tranquility & Insight
     … Here the questions are: “How do you regard fabrications? How do you investigate them? And how do you see them with insight?” You can regard fabrications as the five aggregates: There’s form, feeling, perception, fabrication itself, and consciousness. Or there’s another list called the three fabrications: bodily fabrication—which is the breath; verbal fabrication—directed thought and evaluation; and mental fabrication—perceptions … 
  4. Perplexity
     … clinging to the five aggregates. If you go out to ask the average person on the street, “What’s suffering?”—it’s very rare that you’d would find someone who would answer, “the five clinging-aggregates.” They’d have all kinds of other ideas. To comprehend suffering, you have to really look carefully at it to see that this is what lies at … 
  5. Mastering Causality
     … That’s what the first noble truth is all about, clinging to the five aggregates: clinging to the form of the body, clinging to your feelings, perceptions, thought-fabrications, or consciousness. When you stop clinging to these aggregates, then even though they’re still impermanent and there still may be some stress in them, it doesn’t weigh on the mind. The bridge has … 
  6. Eyes in the Back of Your Head
     … You can apply this principle either in the concentration itself or when you’ve come out of concentration and are looking at things in terms of the five aggregates. In the concentration, the Buddha recommends developing the ability to step back from your concentration a bit. The image he gives is of a person sitting who’s watching a person lying down, or a … 
  7. Pure Action
     … Emotions involve all five of the aggregates. And one way to getting a handle on your emotions is to take them apart into aggregates. As you’re working with the breath, that takes apart the physical side. When you hear something or think something that would normally get you to tense up, just don’t tense up. Maintain that same sense of being open … 
  8. The Wheel of Dhamma
     … The analysis eventually comes down to what he calls the five clinging-aggregates: form, feeling, perception, fabrication, and consciousness. He says that we suffer because we cling to these things. Form is any physical form. It can be the form of your own body or the form of things you’re attached to, items that you like, people you like. Feeling is just registering … 
  9. A Leap of the Heart
     … Particularly, he says, see these things as aggregates that are something separate. That’s a good way of analyzing things, because even though the whole terminology of the aggregates may sound a little foreign sometimes, it’s actually very directly related to how we shape thoughts and run with them and drop them. There’s a feeling, say, someplace in the body. Then there … 
  10. The Buddha’s Buffet
     … clinging to the five aggregates. He starts out by giving some examples. Aging, illness, death, separation from what you love, having to be with what you don’t like, not getting what you want in terms of the fact that you don’t want to die, you don’t want to get ill, you don’t want to age. But if you’re born … 
  11. Asalha Puja
     … Then he summarizes all forms of stress, saying that the five aggregates, when you cling to them, are stress. The *clinging *to the aggregates is the stress. That’s knowing the truth. The second level of knowledge is knowing that there is a duty with regard to the truth—you don’t just *know *these things, you actually act on them. In this case … 
  12. Clinging, Addictions, Obsessions
    Clinging, Addictions, Obsessions December 27, 2015 As the Buddha said, suffering is the clinging-aggregates. The aggregates themselves are related to the way we feed, and clinging is related to the way we feed as well. The word for clinging—upadana—can also mean sustenance and the act of taking sustenance from things. Of course, we don’t usually think of feeding as suffering … 
  13. Self View & Conceit
     … There’s no longer any holding onto teachings about the self because however you could define a self would have to be around the five aggregates, and you’ve now had that experience that had nothing to do with the five aggregates at all. There’s not even any desire to want to define yourself in any way, as a separate self or a … 
  14. Interdependence & Death
     … identifying themselves around the aggregates. See if you can let go of that. At the same time, there’s another perception that goes along with this: seeing the undesirability of any world. So if you catch yourself identifying with your thoughts or your perceptions, try to be very careful about which perceptions you hold on to, like the perceptions that tell you that you … 
  15. Heedfulness
     … That’s the consciousness aggregate. So all the aggregates are right here. In the beginning, we use them to create a good state of concentration. Then, when the concentration is solid, we can begin to let them go. As you can see, there’s a lot to be interested in here. There’s a lot going on. Even as you try to get the … 
  16. A Healthy Attitude Toward Happiness
     … Then he boils it down to five clinging-aggregates. We hear that and it sounds very strange. The word aggregate—khandha in Pali, or khan in Thai—just means “groups” of things. They’re activities that we do over and over again, that we feed on. That’s what the clinging is. We feed on these things because we hope to get pleasure from … 
  17. Questioning Your Unconscious Actions
     … What kind of ignorance is it? The way you normally hear the Buddhist teachings explained, our ignorance is the kind of ignorance of someone coming out of amnesia whose questions are: “Who am I? Where am I?” The answers that are usually given to those questions are these: “Who are you? – You’re a bundle of five aggregates. Where are you? – You’re in … 
  18. The Uses of Concentration
     … That’s when you truly understand, as the Buddha says, that such is the origination—say of form or feeling, any of the aggregates—and such is their passing away. This is what the aggregates are all about: nothing but grass. This may sound depressing, but it’s actually liberating. It’s like the passage we chanted just now: “The world is swept away … 
  19. The Path of Mistakes
     … In fact when you look at the factors of the path you realize that they’re made up of the aggregates: form, feeling, perception, fabrication, consciousness. These all have to play a role in the path, which means we have to learn how to change our attitude toward the aggregates. Instead of just clinging to them as us or ours, we learn how to … 
  20. The Karma of Pain
     … This is one of the reasons why the Buddha divided things into aggregates, so that you can take them apart. What’s the perception? What’s the feeling? What are the thought-fabrications you’re building around these things? What’s the body in relationship to the pain? What is your basic awareness in relation to the pain? If you put these things together … 
  21. Becoming
     … For example, we all know the teaching that you create a sense of self out of any of the five aggregates, all of which are activities. Well, you can watch yourself as you meditate: Exactly how do you create a sense of me or mine around what you’re doing? One thing you tend to see very quickly is the way your sense of … 
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