#Linked Discourses 22

To practice in line with the teachings a mendicant should meditate on disillusionment with the aggregates. At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, when a mendicant is practicing in line with the teachings, this is what’s in line with the teachings. They should live full of disillusionment for form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. Living in this way, they completely understand form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. Completely understanding form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness, they’re freed from these things. [Read More]

The Buddha speaks to Ānanda on what at AN 3.47 described as the “characteristics of conditioned phenomena”: arising, ceasing, and change while persisting, as applied to past, future, and present. Ānanda explains in terms of the aggregates.At Sāvatthī. Sitting to one side, the Buddha said to Ānanda: “Ānanda, suppose they were to ask you: ‘Reverend Ānanda, what are the things for which arising, vanishing, and change while persisting were evident? What are the things for which arising, vanishing, and change while persisting will be evident? [Read More]

The Buddha speaks to Ānanda on what at AN 3.47 described as the “characteristics of conditioned phenomena”: arising, ceasing, and change while persisting. This was to become a critical aspect of later theories on the nature of change. Ānanda explains in terms of the aggregates.At Sāvatthī. And then Venerable Ānanda … sitting to one side, the Buddha said to him: “Ānanda, suppose they were to ask you: ‘Reverend Ānanda, what are the things for which arising is evident, vanishing is evident, and change while persisting is evident? [Read More]

The Buddha teaches a mendicant who wants to go on retreat that one is measured by what one has an underlying tendency for. The mendicant gives a full explanation.At Sāvatthī. Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha … and asked him, “Sir, may the Buddha please teach me Dhamma in brief. When I’ve heard it, I’ll live alone, withdrawn, diligent, keen, and resolute.” “Mendicant, you’re measured against what you have an underlying tendency for, and you’re defined by what you’re measured against. [Read More]

The Buddha teaches a mendicant who wants to go on retreat that one is reckoned by what one has an underlying tendency for. The mendicant gives a full explanation.At Sāvatthī. Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him, “Sir, may the Buddha please teach me Dhamma in brief. When I’ve heard it, I’ll live alone, withdrawn, diligent, keen, and resolute.” “Mendicant, you’re defined by what you have an underlying tendency for. [Read More]

Let go of what is not yours: the five aggregates.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, give up what’s not yours. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. And what isn’t yours? Form isn’t yours: give it up. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. Feeling … Perception … Choices … Consciousness isn’t yours: give it up. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. Give up what’s not yours. [Read More]

Let go of what is not yours: the five aggregates. You wouldn’t be upset if someone took the grass and sticks from the monastery grounds, so why worry over the aggregates?At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, give up what’s not yours. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. And what isn’t yours? Form isn’t yours: give it up. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. Feeling … Perception … Choices … Consciousness isn’t yours: give it up. [Read More]

The aggregates are misery, desire for them is the root of misery.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you misery and the root of misery. Listen … And what is misery? Form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness are misery. This is called misery. And what is the root of misery? It’s the craving that leads to future lives, mixed up with relishing and greed, taking pleasure in various different realms. That is, craving for sensual pleasures, craving to continue existence, and craving to end existence. [Read More]

The arising of the aggregates is the arising of suffering.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, the arising, continuation, rebirth, and manifestation of form is the arising of suffering, the continuation of diseases, and the manifestation of old age and death. The arising, continuation, rebirth, and manifestation of feeling … perception … choices … consciousness is the arising of suffering, the continuation of diseases, and the manifestation of old age and death. The cessation, settling, and ending of form is the cessation of suffering, the settling of diseases, and the ending of old age and death. [Read More]