One who truly understand these five aggregates is a stream-enterer.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are these five grasping aggregates. What five? That is, the grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. A noble disciple comes to truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape. Such a noble disciple is called a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, bound for awakening.”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/25/2020
Only a true ascetic fully understands the five aggregates.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are these five grasping aggregates. What five? That is, the grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape … Those venerables don’t realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin … There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand … Those venerables realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and live having realized it with their own insight.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/24/2020
Only a true ascetic fully understands the five aggregates.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are these five grasping aggregates. What five? That is, the grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ gratification, drawback, and escape … There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand …”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/23/2020
The aggregates are to be fully understood, ending the defilements is the full understanding of them, and an arahant is the one who has achieved this.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you the things that should be completely understood, complete understanding, and the person who has completely understood. Listen … And what things should be completely understood? Form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. These are called the things that should be completely understood.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/22/2020
The aggregates considered in light of the four noble truths in terms of identity.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you identity, the origin of identity, the cessation of identity, and the practice that leads to the cessation of identity. Listen … And what is identity? It should be said: the five grasping aggregates. What five? That is, the grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. This is called identity.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/21/2020
The aggregates considered in light of the four noble truths in terms of suffering.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you suffering, the origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering. Listen … And what is suffering? It should be said: the five grasping aggregates. What five? That is, the grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. This is called suffering.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/20/2020
The aggregates considered in light of the four noble truths, phrased as “portions” or “sides”.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are these four sides. What four? The side of identity, the side of the origin of identity, the side of the cessation of identity, and the side of the practice that leads to the cessation of identity. And what is the side of identity? It should be said: the five grasping aggregates. What five?
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/19/2020
The perception of impermanence eliminates lust, ignorance, and conceit. Illustrated with a long series of similes.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, when the perception of impermanence is developed and cultivated it eliminates all desire for sensual pleasures, for rebirth in the realm of luminous form, and for rebirth in a future life. It eliminates all ignorance and eradicates all conceit ‘I am’. In the autumn, a farmer ploughing with a large plough shears through all the root networks.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/18/2020
Contemplating the aggregates leads to liberation, but this may not be immediately apparent. The Buddha illustrates this with similes of a chook sitting on eggs, the wearing away of an axe handle, and the rotting of a ship’s rigging.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I say that the ending of defilements is for one who knows and sees, not for one who does not know or see. For one who knows and sees what?
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/17/2020
A dog leashed to a post will always remain close to that post. In the same way, beings remain close to aggregates in this endless cycle of transmigration. The Buddha refers to a well-known painting called “Conduct”, and says the mind is even more diverse than that; and indeed, the animal realm is the most diverse of them all, and it is produced by the mind.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning.
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