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  2. Right Questions in the Right Order
     … He says suffering is the five clinging-aggregates. Now, the transcript of the talk that we have now doesn’t explain clinging or aggregates. Perhaps all we have is an outline of the talk. But the aggregates are the aggregates of form, feeling, perception, fabrication, and consciousness. Clinging is clinging to these things in any of four ways: through either through the desire for … 
  3. Suffering Starts Before Life
     … Suffering is the five clinging-aggregates. This is something you can deal with, because clinging is something you do. The aggregates are things that you do as well. Which means if you want to put an end to suffering, you stop clinging to the aggregates. It turns out that the aggregates without the clinging are not suffering. So you can still live and function … 
  4. Clinging-Aggregates
  5. Aggregates as Actions
  6. Aggregates as Tools
  7. The Aggregates as Tools
  8. Aggregates as a Path, The
  9. Three Noble Truths Versus Four
     … After all, they’ve learned from the Buddha that you should let go of the five aggregates, that the five aggregates are stressful, inconstant, and not-self, so they just let them go. But you don’t gain anything that way. What the Buddha has you do is take those five aggregates and develop them into right concentration. You’ve got the breath here … 
  10. A Path of Aggregates
     … He says, “the five clinging-aggregates.” That, he says, is the suffering. So, we have to know what clinging is, we have to know what aggregates are. And the question is, why did the Buddha list those five aggregates: form, feeling, perceptions, fabrication, consciousness? For one thing, he says it’s through our attachment to these things that we create our sense of being … 
  11. Mindfulness & Perception
     … What are you holding on to that’s causing the stress? The stress has to be in clinging to the aggregates. The aggregates themselves are not the Buddha’s definition of stress. It’s the clinging: That’s what you’ve got to look for, because that’s something you can do something about. You begin to see the clinging itself as an activity … 
  12. Perception
     … Of course eventually you have to let go of all perceptions because they, too, are aggregates. But that’s simply a part of the strategic approach the Buddha takes: You use the aggregates to get beyond the aggregates. Then you let them go. When I was teaching in Canada last November, one of the people at the retreat was saying that she had been … 
  13. Comfort Dhamma
     … to see that there are five aggregates, and what you are is just five aggregates—or whatever the scholar’s favorite teaching might be. Your sense of who you are, or your identity as a being is just a conventional truth, they say, but the real truth is these ways of analyzing things: the five aggregates, the six sense spheres, the six properties. Those … 
  14. Isolating the Aggregates
    Isolating the Aggregates July 20, 2011 As the Buddha says, one of the rewards of concentration is that you get to understand the aggregates: what’s form, what’s feeling, perception, fabrication, consciousness. You get to watch how they arise; you get to watch how they pass away. When you see them clearly, you can begin to see where you’re clinging to them … 
  15. Clinging & Its Cure
     … As the Buddha said, we cling to the aggregates. There are some passages where he says that we’re clinging not so much to the aggregates themselves, but to our desire and passion for fabricating aggregates. It’s as if we have a particular skill. We’ve learned how to fabricate things and we just love to keep fabricating, because we realize that’s … 
  16. The Tools of the Path
     … So again, you’re using the aggregates; you’re getting sensitive to these aggregates as you put them into practice, as you make use of them. This means that you don’t just reject them right offhand, saying, “Well, these are aggregates, and clinging to the aggregates is bad, so I’ve got to let go of them.” First, you have to learn how … 
  17. Investigative Work
     … What’s going on in your mind right now? The Buddha says we’re suffering from clinging-aggregates. It’s not the aggregates that are clinging. It’s just that clinging is so tied up in the aggregates that, for the time being, it’s hard for us to see which is which—which is the clinging, which is the aggregate. As the Buddha … 
  18. Fourth Truth, First Duty
     … Those are four of the five aggregates, and then of course you’ve got consciousness, which is aware of all these things. So in the course of developing concentration, you’re getting hands-on experience with the aggregates. This is going to be really important because in the Buddha’s analysis, suffering is clinging to the aggregates. So you’re getting to know the … 
  19. Right View: Feeding Instructions
     … He said “the five clinging-aggregates” – “aggregates” here in the sense of a pile of things from which we take bits and pieces and cobble together our sense of who we are. The fact that we cling to these things: That’s what suffering is. The aggregates on their own are not suffering. They arise and pass away and, to that extent, there is … 
  20. Chewed Up by Your Food
     … He talks about how suffering boils down to the five clinging-aggregates. You’ve got the form clinging-aggregate, the feeling clinging-aggregate, the perception clinging-aggregate, fabrications and consciousness clinging-aggregates. The word for “clinging,” upadana, can also mean sustenance. We try to feed off of these things. Particularly, we try to feed off the pleasure that these things have to offer. We … 
  21. In the Elephant’s Footprint
     … One of those fetters is self-identity views, in other words, viewing that you either are your aggregates or you own the aggregates, or the aggregates are in you or you’re in the aggregates. The mind doesn’t think in those terms anymore, because it’s had an experience that had nothing to do with any aggregates at all, nothing to do with … 
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