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- 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 …
- Ironies… Some of the things we all know—there is stress in birth, there is stress in aging, illness, and death, getting what you don’t want, not getting what you do want—but the summary is something subtler, the clinging-aggregates: clinging to form, to feeling, perception, thought constructs, consciousness. This is what it all comes down to. Again, it’s stuff that’s …
- Not-self as a Raft… The first truth, suffering, is defined as clinging-aggregates. There are five of them altogether: form, which is your sense of the body; feelings of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain; perceptions, the labels that you put on things; thought fabrications, the way you put thoughts together; and consciousness, which is aware of all these things along with itself. These are all activities and …
- A Healthy Attitude Toward Happiness… Then he boils it down to five clinging-aggregates. We hear that and it sounds very strange. The word aggregate—khandha in Pali, or khan in Thai—just means “groups” of things. They’re activities that we do over and over again, that we feed on. That’s what the clinging is. We feed on these things because we hope to get pleasure from …
- A Poker Mind… 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 now is to develop concentration because that’s part of the path. So in the beginning, we take the first three frames of reference—body, feeling, mind—and we try …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- Desire Is Part of the Path… In fact, you could use that as a definition of clinging aggregates: being addicted to the aggregates. Aggregates, you know, are not things. They’re activities. Your body is constantly active. Your feelings are activities. Your perceptions are things you do. Thought constructs, fabrications are things you do. Consciousness is something you do. And we’re addicted to these activities. With the path, the …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- The Power of Your Actions… as clinging-aggregates, clinging to these activities of creating the form of your body, creating feelings, perceptions, thought fabrications, acts of consciousness. We cling to these in four ways: We create sensual fantasies about the sensual pleasures we would like—these are created out of aggregates. We have our views about the world—these are created out of aggregates. We have our ideas, habits …
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