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  2. Right View as Tool
     … But then he concludes with something that’s not quite so intuitive, which is that the five clinging-aggregates are suffering. It’s not intuitive, but it’s what makes this a noble truth. In other words, wherever the mind is pained, wherever the mind is weighed down with stress, you turn to look to see: Where is the clinging? It’s something you … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. The Not-Self Discourse
     … The Buddha had taught them earlier that suffering was the five clinging-aggregates. In the second sermon, he went through all five of the aggregates and pointed out how each was not-self. In the first part of the sermon, he focused on how none of the aggregates lie totally under your control. You can’t have them always be the way you want … 
  5. Feeding Instructions
     … All this comes down to the five clinging-aggregates—form as a clinging-aggregate; feelings as a clinging-aggregate; perceptions, fabrications, consciousness as clinging-aggregates. And the real problem is the clinging. The word for clinging, upādāna, can also mean “to take sustenance,” in other words, to feed. We’re feeding off of our sense of our body as we feel it from within … 
  6. A Good Dish of Concentration
     … To discern it, in the Buddha’s terms, would be to see it in terms of the five clinging-aggregates, and that’s usually not the first thought that occurs to us when we’re suffering. We need to meditate to get the mind calm, so that we can actually see what’s going on, so that we can see what these aggregates are … 
  7. Beyond Natural Suffering
     … He started with a long list of the various things that are suffering, and then he came to a synopsis, which is that the five clinging aggregates are suffering: form as a clinging aggregate, feeling, perception, fabrication as a clinging aggregate, consciousness as a clinging aggregate. The usefulness of the synopsis is that you realize that clinging to these five things: That’s suffering … 
  8. The Duty to Understand
    In the first noble truth, the Buddha defines suffering or stress—the Pali word is dukkha—as the five clinging-aggregates, and the clinging is the important part of the compound there. The suffering that eats into the heart is made up of those five types of clinging: clinging to form, clinging to feelings, clinging to the perceptions or mental labels, clinging to thought … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. Admirable Friendship
     … When the Buddha talks about suffering, he starts out with things we’re all familiar with and then he goes into the five clinging-aggregates, which are not so familiar. He says that they’re the actual problem there. So we have to look, “Okay, what is the clinging? What are these aggregates?” It’s not something that would immediately occur to us, that … 
  11. The Noble Truths of the Breath
     … It’s the five clinging aggregates. And what are those aggregates? One of them is perception. And a good way to see how you cling to perceptions is to experiment with new perceptions, to see where they are useful. This is why we listen to the Dhamma to begin with. The Buddha gives us new ways of perceiving our lives to try on. And … 
  12. A Concentration Diet
     … As the Buddha said, suffering is the five clinging-aggregates, and the word for clinging—upadana—can also mean to take sustenance, to feed. When you’re in a position where you have to feed on things, no matter how good they are, you’re in an unstable position, always concerned about how much longer your source of food is going to last, dependent … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. To Know the Noble Truths
     … But then he says what all those forms of suffering have in common is the five clinging-aggregates: form, feeling, perceptions, thought constructs, and consciousness. That’s something less familiar. You can say, “How can I know about suffering if it’s something I’m not familiar with?” Well, the Buddha says the clinging is the real problem, and he says we cling in … 
  15. A Game of Chess
     … For example, with the khandhas—the five clinging-aggregates: We read in the Buddha’s second sermon, on the not-self characteristic, that as you contemplate these, you let them go. We tend to forget, though, that this was delivered to people who’d already become stream-enterers, who already had a good foundation in the practice. That’s when they let go of … 
  16. Perplexity
     … 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 the essence of the suffering … 
  17. Asalha Puja
     … Then he summarized all kinds of stress as “the five clinging-aggregates.” He didn’t explain what he meant by that; he moved on to the next truth. The cause of stress and suffering is craving—the kind of craving that gives rise to becoming. He listed three kinds: the craving for sensuality, the craving for becoming, and the craving for no becoming. The … 
  18. Encouragement
     … But to summarize, what do they have in common? The five clinging-aggregates. This is where the analysis gets impersonal and unfamiliar. And part of the problem is that translation, “aggregates.” There’s got to be a better translation. It’s basically groups of different actions. We’re clinging to certain ways of acting, clinging itself is a kind of action, and that’s … 
  19. Mature Strategies
     … Then he summarizes his definition of suffering with the five clinging aggregates. This is where he starts getting technical, and where he starts attacking another one of our common strategies, which is our sense of self. This is another one of the Buddha’s great insights — that our sense of self is an activity, a strategy for avoiding suffering, for maximizing happiness. We latch … 
  20. The Pursuit of Excellence
     … Of course, the Buddha’s analysis of suffering—the five clinging-aggregates—when you actually think about what it means, goes against the grain. It’s saying that we cling to the things we want to see as ours, want to see as us, because we like them, yet that clinging is suffering. In other words, we suffer from our likes. We have to … 
  21. Questions of Skill
     … It’s defined as the five clinging-aggregates. Where are you going to find those aggregates? You find them as you’re doing concentration. You’ve got the body here: That’s form. You’ve got the feeling of pleasure that you’re trying to create. You’ve got the perceptions, the images you hold in mind of what the breath does as it … 
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