Search results for: "The Five Clinging Aggregates"

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  2. Learning from Desire
     … He says, “When you boil it all down, it’s the five clinging-aggregates.” To see that, he says, is to discern suffering. We also need to see suffering’s cause, which he says is the craving that leads to becoming. How are we going to see these things? By meditating: first, getting the mind to see what these aggregates are and how we … 
  3. To Discern Suffering
     … This is why his summary of suffering is the five clinging-aggregates. Now, the aggregates themselves don’t cling, but they’re the object of clinging. Or to say that they’re objects is not quite right, because they’re actually activities. Your sense of your body right now depends on the movement of the blood, the movement of the energy in the body … 
  4. The Wheel of Dhamma
     … The analysis eventually comes down to what he calls the five clinging-aggregates: form, feeling, perception, fabrication, and consciousness. He says that we suffer because we cling to these things. Form is any physical form. It can be the form of your own body or the form of things you’re attached to, items that you like, people you like. Feeling is just registering … 
  5. A Refuge Inside
     … But then there’s also the suffering of the four noble truths, what he calls the five clinging-aggregates. The first kind of suffering is just the way things are, in and of themselves. The question is: Why does that create suffering for us? Because of our clinging. So you’ve got to watch the mind to see why it clings, because the suffering … 
  6. The Dhamma Wheel Shakes Up the World
     … He said that there is suffering and he identifies it as the five clinging-aggregates, so that you know what suffering is. The next thing to know is what to do with it. It’s supposed to be comprehended. You want to comprehend what the clinging is. You want to get to the point where you finally have comprehended it to the point of … 
  7. A Poker Mind
     … are qualities you want to abandon. The factors for awakening are qualities you want to develop. The fetters with regard to the six senses are to be abandoned as well. The five clinging-aggregates are activities to be comprehended. And then there are the four noble truths, which apply their duties to what you’re doing right now. For instance, your main duty right … 
  8. A Path of Aggregates
     … He says, “the five clinging-aggregates.” That, he says, is the suffering. So, we have to know what clinging is, we have to know what aggregates are. And the question is, why did the Buddha list those five aggregates: form, feeling, perceptions, fabrication, consciousness? For one thing, he says it’s through our attachment to these things that we create our sense of being … 
  9. A Path Under the Trees
     … He said that it was the five clinging- aggregates, and the important part was the clinging. If there’s no clinging to the aggregates, then there’s no suffering. And why do you cling? Because of craving. So the question is: Can you get rid of that craving: the craving for sensuality, the craving for becoming, the craving for non-becoming? The first factor … 
  10. Antidotes for Clinging
    Antidotes for Clinging October 7, 2007 There are some places in the Pali Canon where the Buddha says that the five aggregates are stressful, and others where he says the five clinging-aggregates are stressful. It’s important to notice here that he’s talking about two different kinds of stress. The sense in which the five aggregates are stressful is related to stress … 
  11. The Particulars of Your Suffering
     … It’s the five clinging aggregates: clinging to form, clinging to feeling, clinging to perceptions, clinging to fabrications, clinging to consciousness at the senses. It sounds pretty abstract, and you may wonder where the Buddha got this particular way of dividing up the pie of your experience. Apparently, it comes from his practice of concentration. When you try to get the mind to settle … 
  12. Working at Home
     … And even though you may not be directly applying the perceptions of inconstancy, stress, and not-self to the five clinging-aggregates, you’re learning to take a problem-solving approach to issues in your life, which is precisely the Buddha’s approach. The four noble truths are a problem-solving approach, focused on the problem of stress and suffering as a whole, and … 
  13. Comprehending Suffering
     … The Buddha said suffering is the five clinging-aggregates, which means not that the aggregates are clinging, but the act of clinging to the aggregates. So when there’s pain, that’s a feeling, but that’s not necessarily the suffering that’s going on in the mind. The suffering the Buddha’s talking about is the suffering that comes when you cling. And … 
  14. How to Use the Three Perceptions
     … Suffering is the five clinging-aggregates. So where are you clinging to the aggregates? And how is it suffering? That’s when you start looking at the things you’re clinging to, and ask yourself, “Is this constant or inconstant? If it’s inconstant, is it easeful or stressful?” And the third question: If it’s inconstant and stressful, is it worth holding onto … 
  15. Attention to Your Potentials
     … The radical part is when he says that it all comes down to the five clinging-aggregates. We read elsewhere that the aggregates themselves are not the problem. Arahants have aggregates, but they don’t suffer. It’s the clinging. And the idea that the clinging is the suffering: That takes a lot of getting used to. It’s also challenging us. The things … 
  16. Clinging & Feeding
    When the Buddha defined suffering or stress in the four noble truths, he gave lots of examples and then summarized them all as the five clinging-aggregates. Notice he didn’t say five aggregates. It’s the clinging-aggregates that are suffering. It’s because we cling to them that the mind suffers. The aggregates may have stress simply in the fact they arise … 
  17. Mindful Judgment
     … The Buddha defines this suffering as the five clinging-aggregates, which is the technical term for the fact that we try to feed on the form of the body, on our feelings, on our perceptions, on the way the mind fabricates its thoughts, and on acts of consciousness, in our attempt to find happiness. It’s like feeding on potato chips thinking that you … 
  18. A Pure Happiness
     … He starts with the obvious forms of suffering—birth, aging, illness and death, not getting what you want, having to be with things you don’t like, being separated from the things you do like—and then he finally boils them all down to the five aggregates of clinging or the five clinging-aggregates. What are they? There’s form, which is how you … 
  19. Analyzing Suffering
     … He talks about suffering in various terms in different contexts, but his most condensed analysis is the five clinging-aggregates. Form as a clinging-aggregate, feeling as a clinging-aggregate, perception, fabrication, and consciousness as clinging-aggregates. He talks about the aggregates to help make suffering a bit more impersonal. We tend to identify so much with our sufferings. Our strongest sense of our … 
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