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  2. Appropriate Attention, Appropriate Intention
     … He boils it down to the five clinging-aggregates, which is not an immediately clear or obvious way of explaining it. To see it in those terms, you have to look at it carefully and take it apart. That way, when you see what suffering is, you can watch it carefully enough to see what the cause is, to develop dispassion for the cause … 
  3. The Mind Undefined
     … He boiled things down to five clinging-aggregates, but those are things you have to explore. Those are activities that you do. Your clinging to the aggregates is an activity, and the aggregates that you cling to are activities. The question is, in every case, can you do those activities in a different way? So it’s good to leave some things undefined, especially … 
  4. Clinging
    The Buddha identified suffering as the five clinging-aggregates. And the problem is not the aggregates. It’s the clinging. It comes in four forms: clinging to sensuality, to views, to habits and practices, and to doctrines of the self. But regardless of the form, you can feel it physically, as a tightening in the breath energy in the body. Now, the physical feeling … 
  5. In Times of Danger and Fear
     … 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, we tend to cling to these things without really knowing what we’re doing. The Buddha’s solution is to observe carefully what you’re doing so that you don … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. Four Noble Truths to One
     … 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 with these things, to engage in these things without clinging, then there’s no suffering around them. So you have to comprehend: How is that clinging suffering? We have to … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. Focus on the Precepts
     … Then you apply the perceptions of inconstancy, stress, and non-self to those actions and their results, because the duty with regard to those five clinging-aggregates is to comprehend them. To comprehend them means to understand them to the point where you have no passion, aversion, or delusion around them, and you comprehend them through applying these perceptions. The perceptions are actions—they … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. Action & Result
     … But after all, how is suffering defined? It’s the clinging-aggregates. You cling to things because you have passion for them, yet suffering comes out at the other end. As Ajaan Chah says, we’re like the person who doesn’t think that the tail of the snake is connected to the mouth of the snake. The tail seems safe, doesn’t have … 
  16. 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 … 
  17. 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 … 
  18. Strategic Thinking
     … Remember that suffering, as he said, when you boil it down to its essence, is five clinging-aggregates: form, feeling, perception, fabrications, and consciousness as they’re clung to. The cause of suffering is craving, specifically craving for sensuality, craving for becoming, craving for not-becoming. To abandon the cause of suffering and to understand suffering, you take some of those elements out of … 
  19. 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 … 
  20. To Comprehend Suffering
     … 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 places where he says that the aggregates on their own are experienced by arahants. Arahants have form, feelings, perceptions, thought-fabrications, consciousness, but they don’t suffer, because they don … 
  21. 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 … 
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