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- In Times of Danger and Fear… things we don’t like, and not getting what we want. But then he says the common denominator in all these forms of suffering is something that’s less obvious: the five clinging-aggregates. What are the aggregates? They’re activities, activities of the body and of the mind. They’re things we’re doing, habits we’ve developed, and as with most habits …
- To Suffer Is an Active Verb… Suffering, he said, is the five clinging-aggregates. Where there are aggregates without clinging—say, in an arahant—there’s no suffering. Even when there’s pain in the aggregates, the arahant’s mind isn’t suffering. It’s the act of clinging to these things, out of passion, out of delight in them because we find them alluring: That’s the suffering. And …
- An Auspicious Birth… He says the five clinging aggregates are to be comprehended, craving and clinging are to be abandoned, the ending of craving and clinging is to be realized. That’s all in line with what he says in the sutta in setting the wheel of Dhamma in motion. But then for the fourth one, for developing, he focuses on tranquility and insight, which are the …
- Four Noble Truths to One… that we recognize. But then he gives a summary as to what they all have in common, and that’s where his analysis gets unfamiliar, at least in the terminology: the five clinging-aggregates of form, feeling, perceptions, thought fabrications, and consciousness. The aggregates don’t cling. We cling to them, and the clinging is the actual suffering. Once we learn how to be …
- Friends with the Dhamma Wheel… So what are the duties? With regard to the first noble truth, the truth of suffering—which is that suffering is basically the five clinging-aggregates—the duty is to comprehend that. That means understanding it so well that you have no more passion, aversion, or delusion around it. We don’t think that we’re passionate for suffering, but after all, the Buddha …
- Shoulds & Desires… But then he boils it down to the five clinging-aggregates. The important word there is the “clinging.” The Pali term for clinging, upadana, can also mean “to feed.” This is where things get counterintuitive, because for most of us, our relationship to the world is that we want to feed off it. We like to take in not only physical food, but also …
- The Gift of Discernment… What does it mean to comprehend suffering? Try to take it apart in terms of the five clinging-aggregates. What are you holding onto in terms of the form, whatever forms there may be in your experience right now? What are you holding onto in terms of feelings, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness? How are you holding on? Why do you hold on? What’s the …
- How We Cling… But then he goes on to say that the common denominator among these examples is the five clinging-aggregates: clinging to form, feeling, perception, thought fabrications, ad consciousness. This is where it gets unfamiliar. You may say, “I don’t consciously cling to these things.” But you have to understand that there are four ways of clinging, and they’re all very familiar: clinging …
- Against the Grain… In his analysis, he talks about the suffering of the five clinging-aggregates. Each of the aggregates is an activity that’s involved in feeding. There’s the form of the body that needs to be fed, and of the physical food that we feed on. There’s the feeling of hunger that drives us to feed, and the feeling of satisfaction that comes …
- Noble Right Concentration… Stress is defined as the five clinging-aggregates: form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness. Where are you going to see those aggregates? You see them in the concentration. The breath is part of form. The feeling of pleasure that arises as you stay focused: That’s feeling. The mental image you have of the breath: That’s perception. Directed thought and evaluation as you try …
- In the Context of the Path… Then he says that it all comes down to the five clinging-aggregates. That’s not immediately obvious, which is why it’s a really important insight. We’re suffering from the things we’re clinging to. We have to comprehend that—in other words, understand it to the point where we have no passion, aversion, or delusion around the suffering that we’re …
- Feeding on Feeding… It’s the five clinging-aggregates: the form clinging-aggregate, feeling clinging-aggregate, perception clinging-aggregate, fabrications clinging-aggregate, consciousness clinging-aggregate. People have often asked: Where did the Buddha get this analysis? Because you don’t see it in any pre-Buddhist teachings. He mentions it in his first discourse, explains a little bit more in his second, and the people that were …
- To Comprehend Suffering… synopsis that’s not nearly as direct, or doesn’t seem to be as direct as the examples. The examples are things that everyone knows, but the synopsis gets technical: the five clinging-aggregates. The first word that strikes you is aggregates: These are the activities of form, feelings, perceptions, thought-fabrications, and consciousness. But theimportant word there is the clinging, because there are …
- Fix Your Views… There’s never any place where the Buddha defines suffering, say, in other terms aside from the five clinging-aggregates. He never says that they’re the end of suffering. There’s no place where he defines right resolve, say, as being resolved on sensuality. Certain things are right and certain things are wrong, period, across the board. And even though we’re coming …
- Using What You’ve Got… The Buddha says suffering is what? The five clinging-aggregates. How are you going to learn about suffering? Well, you put those aggregates all together right here. You learn to put them together in different ways. You can make them into different levels of concentration, and once the concentration gets developed, you apply it to different issues. Ajaan Fuang used to say that there …
- Not-self… And what is suffering and stress? It’s clinging to the five clinging-aggregates, or more basically the clinging. The aggregates themselves are not the problem. The problem is in the clinging. We want to comprehend how our clinging is suffering and stress. And it’s hard because we clinging because we think that what we’re clinging to is going to lead to …
- Dhamma Is a Quality of the Heart… He defines dukkha as the five clinging-aggregates, but your understanding of what the word covers is going to change as you practice. It’s going to get more refined. Things that you regard as pleasure right now: Ultimately you’ll see that they have their stress. They can entail dukkha. But for the time being, as long as they seem pleasant, you stick …
- To Know the Buddha… He defines suffering—dukkha, stress, pain—as the five clinging-aggregates. Now, the act of clinging is an action, and the aggregates themselves are actions, even the body. As they say in Pali, rūpa ruppati, which means form deforms; feelings feel; perceptions perceive; fabrications fabricate; consciousness cognizes. They’re not things. When we talk about them as aggregates, it sounds as if they’re …
- Duties… When the Buddha taught the five clinging-aggregates, this is why: to help you take your suffering and stress apart, to understand what it’s made of. Exactly what are you clinging to right now, how are you clinging, so that you feel that stress, you feel that burden on your mind. It might be form or feeling or perception—i.e., the labels …
- Clinging to Karmic Diarrhea… He wants you to dig a little bit deeper, and that’s where you see that the common denominator for all kinds of suffering is the five clinging-aggregates: when you have passion and delight in form, feeling, perception, fabrications, and consciousness. Why do you have that passion and delight? That’s what the clinging is. The word for clinging, upādāna, can also mean …
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