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2. 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 … 
3. 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 … 
4. Play AudioAdmirable 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 … 
5. Play AudioThe Dhamma Mirror
    … But then he says, “What makes them all suffering, what makes them all stressful?” What they all have in common is five clinging-aggregates. This is where the analysis gets unfamiliar. So you learn the names of the aggregates: Form is the form of your body. Feelings are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. Perceptions are the labels you put on … 
6. Play AudioThe 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 … 
7. Play AudioBody & Mind from Within
    … He identifies it as clinging-aggregates: the act of clinging to the aggregates. The aggregates are the form of the body as you feel it from within, your feelings, your perceptions, your thought fabrications, and your consciousness. We engage in these things usually without knowing what we’re doing, because we focus on clinging in four other ways: We cling to sensuality: our fascination … 
8. Play AudioSensitive to Fabrication
    … But the Buddha says, no, comprehend it as clinging-aggregates, which is not the first thought that usually comes to our mind. But ask yourself, “Where’s the clinging? What are you feeding on here? Is it a form? Is it an image you’re holding in mind? Is it a feeling? Is it a perception? Is it a fabrication? Is it just the … 
9. Play AudioA 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 … 
10. Play AudioRight 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 … 
11. Play AudioTo 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 … 
12. Play AudioA 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 … 
13. Play AudioPerplexity
     … 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 … 
14. Play AudioAsalha 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 … 
15. Play AudioCross-questioning
     … Remember that suffering is defined as five clinging-aggregates. The Buddha right there is giving you a key. It’s the clinging that you’re going to have to understand. When he’s talking about comprehending suffering, that’s what he means: comprehend the clinging. See where it is, what it is you’re clinging to, and why you want to cling to it … 
16. Play AudioEncouragement
     … 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 … 
17. Play AudioMature 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 … 
18. Play AudioThe Fangs of Conceit
     … Simply learn how to see these things in these terms, as clinging-aggregates, for otherwise you see them in terms of your narratives and, depending on the mood of the day, the narratives can be really nice or they can turn around and bite you. You want to be the kind of person who can analyze a narrative and take it into other terms … 
19. Play AudioThe 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 … 
20. Play AudioLearning 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 … 
21. Play AudioTo 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 … 
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