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What does "picking up the aggregates" mean, and does it apply in this example?
In my quest to develop virtue, sometimes, I get distracted and entangled in thoughts. When I am in thoughts, virtuous conduct is halted.
The reason why I get entangled in thoughts, is usually because ...
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Is it the aggregates holding self-view that causes suffering within aggregates?
In my current considerations, there are two options regarding self view and suffering, and I am not sure which one applies. Would appreciate any advice.
Option 1: there is a true self that can be ...
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What aggregate is focus part of?
If my neighbor is real loud, I focus on the noises. It's a sort of involuntary focus. I would like to be able to detach myself from this focus.
Until now, I thought focus is part of the 'perception' ...
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What are sense-objects made from?
The common sense-objects are light, sound, smells, tastes, touch, and ideas. The origin must be form. What is form?
The four great elements and the form derived from the four great
elements: this is ...
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Multiple Selves Sutta reference?
Wondering if anyone knows the sutta where the Buddha talks about the aggregates and multiple selves. As in there is a changing group of khandas, and in one moment there is a self, (which could be ...
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Relation between five aggregates and four establishments of mindfulness?
I have been wondering what the connection between the five aggregates and the four establishments are. Below i give the translations into English that i've found when reading Bhikkhu Bodhi (BB) and ...
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What does Buddhism say about attention?
I read somewhere that:
Attention is a product of/maintained by volition/intention (which is sankhara aggregate).
I am puzzled by this as the following examples illustrate:
I am driving back from a ...
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Why is there no attention aggregate?
I read this:
'Nama-rupa' is simply the aggregates:
And what, bhikkhus, is name-and-form? Feeling, perception, volition,
contact, attention: this is called name. The four great elements and
the form ...
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What is first? Vedanā (feeling) or saññā (perception)?
Do we feel because we perceive? Or do we perceive because we feel?
As per mahā-vedallasutta(MN43)
Yaṁ vedeti taṁ sañjānāti, yaṁ sañjānāti taṁ vijānāti.
so vedanā -> sañjānāti -> vijānāti
But ...
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separating consciousness-feeling-perception
From M43 the Mahavedalla Sutta:
It is said consciousness. Friend, what is consciousness?: It knows,
therefore it is called consciousness. Knows what? Knows this is
pleasant, this is unpleasant and ...
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Clinging to perception aggregate
S 14.7 The Discourse on the Diversity of Perception says this:
Dependent on the mind-object element, there arises the perception of
mind-object; Dependent on the perception of mind-object, there ...
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Question on salayatana
From Ñanavira's Notes on Dhamma:
His note on Mano:
Note that just as the eye, as cakkhāyatana or cakkhudhātu, is that yena lokasmim lokasaññī hoti lokamānī ('[that] by which, in the world, one is a ...
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Question on Phassa
In Ñanavira's book Notes on Dhamma:
Phassa is included in nāma since nāma, in specifying saññā, necessarily specifies the pair of āyatanāni ('bases') and kind of viññāna involved (e.g. perception of ...
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Does the aggregate of consciousness depend on the aggregates of sensation, perception and mental formations?
I'm reading the book What the Buddha Taught. In the section The Five Aggregates of Chapter II: The Four Noble Truths, when discussing the relationship between the aggregate of consciousness and other ...
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the result of feelings
The Nibbedhika Sutta: Penetrative (translated by Ven. Thanissaro) states the following:
"And what is the result of feeling? One who feels a feeling produces a corresponding state of existence, ...
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