Five Aggregates
Apr. 23rd, 2025 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mickiToday's chapter was more on the importance of meditating on the mind, specifically the five aggregates which are bodily and physical forms, feelings, perceptions, mental functionings, and consciousness. In meditating, you should become conscious of these five and observe them until “you see that each of them has an intimate connection with the world outside yourself: if the world did not exist then the assembly of the five aggregates could not exist either. Consider the example of a table, the table’s existence is possible to the existence of things we might call the non table world: the forest where the wood grew and was cut, the Carpenter, the iron ore which became the nails and screws, and countless other things which have relation to the table, the parents and the ancestors of the Carpenter, the sun and rain which made it possible for the trees to grow.”
“Attachment to the false view of wealth means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own period to breakthrough this false view is to be liberated from every sort of fear, pain, and anxiety.... we have to strip away all the barriers in order to live as part of the universal life. A person isn't some private entity travelling unaffected through time and space as if sealed off from the rest of the world by a thick shell... In our lives our present a multitude of phenomena, just as we ourselves are present in many different phenomena. We are life, and life is limitless. Perhaps one can say that we are only alive when we live the life of the world, and so live the suffering and stories of others. The suffering of others is our own suffering, and the happiness of others is our own happiness. If our lives have no limits, the assembly of the five aggregates which make up ourself also has no limits. The impermanent character of the universe, the successes and failures of life can no longer manipulate us. Having seen the reality of interdependence and entered deeply into its reality, nothing can oppress any longer period you are liberated. Sit in the Lotus position, observe your breath, and ask one who has died for others.”
“Attachment to the false view of wealth means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own period to breakthrough this false view is to be liberated from every sort of fear, pain, and anxiety.... we have to strip away all the barriers in order to live as part of the universal life. A person isn't some private entity travelling unaffected through time and space as if sealed off from the rest of the world by a thick shell... In our lives our present a multitude of phenomena, just as we ourselves are present in many different phenomena. We are life, and life is limitless. Perhaps one can say that we are only alive when we live the life of the world, and so live the suffering and stories of others. The suffering of others is our own suffering, and the happiness of others is our own happiness. If our lives have no limits, the assembly of the five aggregates which make up ourself also has no limits. The impermanent character of the universe, the successes and failures of life can no longer manipulate us. Having seen the reality of interdependence and entered deeply into its reality, nothing can oppress any longer period you are liberated. Sit in the Lotus position, observe your breath, and ask one who has died for others.”
