Search results for: "Clinging aggregates"

1. Page 4
2. Play AudioUsing 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 … 
3. Play AudioLove Me, Love My Defilements
    … Your identity is made up of clinging-aggregates. The clinging itself is an action. The aggregates are actions. Each of the aggregates is defined by an activity. Form de-forms—in other words it keeps changing. Feelings feel, perceptions perceive, fabrications fabricate the other aggregates into actual aggregates, and consciousness cognizes. These things are defined by their activity. And these activities are the raw … 
4. Play AudioNot-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 … 
5. Play AudioDispassion
    … And then in another sutta, he answers the question, “What does it mean to comprehend?” It means to understand each clinging-aggregate to the point of dispassion. You realize that you’ve been feeding off of form and feelings and perceptions and fabrications and consciousness: all these things that make up your sense of who you are. Now, though, you’ve found something better … 
6. Play AudioDhamma 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 … 
7. Play AudioYou Should Heed These Shoulds
    … But you do have twigs and branches on this side of the river, which stand for the clinging-aggregates, the things you ordinarily cling to in a way that constitutes suffering. But you cut them, bind them into a raft, and then hold on as you cross the river, making an effort with your arms and legs. In other words, you use the aggregates … 
8. Play AudioTo 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 … 
9. Play AudioDuties
    … 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 … 
10. Play AudioClinging 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 … 
11. Play AudioA Rite of Passage
     … Suffering is clinging-aggregates—and the clinging is the real problem. The aggregates on their own are not that much of a problem. But we cling to these things. A thought comes in and we just go for it, take it on. A feeling comes in, an emotion comes in—something comes in, and we just take it on without really thinking. So you … 
12. Play AudioTraining Wheels
     … You’ve got the aggregates, which are neutral, but then they become part of suffering when they become clinging-aggregates. You’ve got the sense media, which are neutral, too, but they become the topic for suffering when you start developing fetters around what you see and hear and smell and taste; or simply fetters around the fact that you like having these senses … 
13. Play AudioLet Go Like a Millionaire
     … You comprehend the clinging-aggregates. Well, to comprehend them means that you overcome passion for them. You try to abandon craving by feeling dispassion for it. And then the cessation of suffering is the actual dispassion for craving. But when you get to the path, you have to generate some passion because you’ve got to build these things: You’ve got to build … 
14. Play AudioA 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 … 
15. Play AudioRight 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 … 
16. Play AudioDuties
     … 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 … 
17. Play AudioLevels 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 … 
18. Play AudioThe 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 … 
19. Play AudioA 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 … 
20. Play AudioThe 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 … 
21. Play AudioSuffering 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 … 
22. Load next page...