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  2. Disenchantment
     … This is why we have the contemplation of the 32 parts of the body, the analysis of things in terms of the aggregates, in terms of the sense media, in terms of the properties: so we can realize that the food of lust or possessiveness we’ve been feeding on with regard to the body is really not based on much. It doesn’t … 
  3. A Passion for the Path
     … We don’t usually think that we’re passionate about suffering, but as he pointed out, we suffer because of five clinging aggregates, and there’s passion right there in the clinging. We cling to our body, our form, our sense of the body felt from the inside and other forms we see outside. We cling to our feelings, our perceptions, our thought fabrications … 
  4. Delusion
     … A lot of the Buddha’s teachings on, say, the aggregates, the establishings of mindfulness, or his various lists of the qualities that are important to develop: These alert you to things going on in your mind that you might not have noticed before. This is one of the reasons why it’s useful to study, to read up on what the Buddha has … 
  5. Boring
     … All the aggregates are going on right here, and you’re relating to them in your old ways. And as we all know, the old ways are the ones that cause you to suffer. There’s ignorance there. There’s something you’re not looking into, some question you’re not asking. So try to cast around and see what that question might be … 
  6. The Flamethrowing Mind
     … different angles, all of which are useful for dividing things up, until you find that angle that works for you, the angle from which you can see that none of the aggregates are worthy of passion: the passion that wants to make something out of them. You can learn to do that with your own mind. When the mind is freed, then, as Ajaan … 
  7. Duties
     … The Buddha said it’s five clinging-aggregates. That doesn’t sound like anything familiar. But he said that these are activities of the mind, things we’re doing all the time. We cling to them, we feed on them, and that’s why we suffer. You want to learn how to comprehend that. If there’s physical pain, you want to see that … 
  8. Levels of Truth
     … You want to be able to look at it, and watch it so you can understand how it comes, how it goes, what are the things that you like that involve stress, what are the drawbacks of liking those things? The Buddha talks about common, everyday stress, and then he moves on to an underlying analysis that he calls the five clinging-aggregates: form … 
  9. Pleasure & Pain
     … You begin to see the differences between the different aggregates that make up your larger sense of pain, your larger sense of suffering. When you take things apart this way, they’re much less imposing. They place much less of a weight on the heart. And when pain then becomes much less of an issue, it’s very liberating for the mind. After all … 
  10. Study & Practice
     … After all, it’s made out of aggregates, which are subject to conditions. But you have to use them, so you have to learn how to recognize which part of the meditation is involving stress that’s necessarily part of the path and which part is creating unnecessary stress—the pointless burdens that you place on the mind. We have these concepts so we … 
  11. The Power of Perception
     … These aggregates the Buddha talks about are activities. There’s an intentional element in them. Really to accept what’s going on doesn’t mean just accepting them as a given. It means accepting the fact you’ve had a hand in shaping them. You want to see that in action. If you don’t see that in action, you’ve got a huge … 
  12. The Graduated Discourse
     … Also, if people were just conglomerates, aggregates, coming together and then disappearing at death, there would be no value in being generous with one another because there’d be no lasting impact. So when the Buddha starts with giving, he’s affirming the principle of freedom of choice at the same time affirming that there’s something to us that goes beyond death. From … 
  13. Action & the End of Action
     … the suffering of aging, illness, and death; of not getting what you want, of being with what you don’t like, of being separated from what you do like; of clinging to the five aggregates. But where he really goes into detail is the training: what you do. There’s a story that after he had trained more than a thousand arahants, they came … 
  14. Lessons from the Buddha’s Awakening
     … Either he’d talk about the suffering and go into the five aggregates and what clinging is, or he went into the different types of craving and the conditions leading to craving, or he went into the factors of the path—particularly the factors of the path, because those are the things that are going to get you out. So as you think about … 
  15. Dependent Co-arising Right Now
     … Name and form is basically the five aggregates. And those are right here, too, simply that fabrication is divided up here into a few other categories: attention, intention, and contact. You look at how you pay attention to the breath. You can look at your intentions in staying with the breath. You look at how your perceptions and your attention and your intentions all … 
  16. Alighting on the Dhamma
     … So have some confidence that when the Buddha’s talking about the five aggregates, he’s talking about things you know. When he talks about the four bases for success, these are qualities you’ve developed to at least some extent. And you can build on them now. The fourth quality is that you’re single-minded. The word for singleness, *ek’aggata, *is … 
  17. Possessed by Emotions
     … This is why the Buddha gives his analysis of the present moment in terms of fabrication, in terms of the aggregates, in terms of the sense media, properties: All these things play a role in how we experience the present moment and all too often we let these activities in the present moment get possessed by greed, aversion, delusion—whatever. Then we complain about … 
  18. What Am I Becoming?
     … In other words, you’ve got the sufferings that come from the aggregates, you’ve got the sufferings that come from the six sense spheres, you’ve got the sufferings from your greed, aversion, and delusion. These things are going to harass and plunder you as much as they can as long as you’re on this shore. The only safe course of action … 
  19. Appropriate Attention
     … You’re clinging to the five aggregates of form, feeling, perceptions, thought fabrications, and consciousness. And why are you doing that? Because of craving. Now, that right there is pretty radical. Most of us, when we suffer, tend to focus on the causes coming from outside. This person did that, that person did this, the society’s like this, the weather’s like that … 
  20. Like a River Full of Water
     … What is this sensation of pain? What’s the difference between the pains, say, of the body or the aggregates, and the pain that comes from craving and ignorance, clinging and ignorance? That’s an important distinction, because the second kind of pain—the clinging and ignorant pain, the pain that affects the mind—is what really makes you suffer. It’s what takes … 
  21. Admirable in the Beginning, Middle, & End
     … In the same way, it’s not the case that the five aggregates are holding on to us, keeping us down. We’re the ones clinging to them, and that’s what’s keeping us down. So the freedom’s going to come from leaning how to let go. And then finally, excellence: Nibbāna really is amazing. It really is something totally other and … 
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