Rādha asks the Buddha about what is of impermanent nature, and the Buddha explains in terms of the five aggregates.At Sāvatthī. Seated to one side, Venerable Rādha said to the Buddha: “Sir, they speak of this thing called ‘naturally impermanent’. What is naturally impermanent? “Rādha, form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness are naturally impermanent. Seeing this … They understand: ‘… there is no return to any state of existence.’”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 10/28/2020
Rādha asks the Buddha about impermanence, and the Buddha explains in terms of the five aggregates.At Sāvatthī. Seated to one side, Venerable Rādha said to the Buddha: “Sir, they speak of this thing called ‘impermanence’. What is impermanence?” “Rādha, form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness are impermanent. Seeing this … They understand: ‘… there is no return to any state of existence.’”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 10/27/2020
Rādha asks the Buddha about being subject to Māra, and the Buddha explains in terms of the five aggregates.At Sāvatthī. Seated to one side, Venerable Rādha said to the Buddha: “Sir, they speak of this thing called ‘Māra-like nature’. What is a Māra-like nature?” “Rādha, form has a Māra-like nature. Feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness have a Māra-like nature. Seeing this … They understand: ‘… there is no return to any state of existence.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 10/26/2020
Rādha asks the Buddha about Māra, and the Buddha explains in terms of the five aggregates.At Sāvatthī. Seated to one side, Venerable Rādha said to the Buddha: “Sir, they speak of this thing called ‘Māra’. How is Māra defined?” “Rādha, form is Māra, feeling is Māra, perception is Māra, choices are Māra, consciousness is Māra. Seeing this, a learned noble disciple grows disillusioned with form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. Being disillusioned, desire fades away.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 10/25/2020
Give up desire for the aggregates and they will come to an end.At Sāvatthī. When Venerable Rādha was seated to one side, the Buddha said to him: “Rādha, you should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for form; and any attraction, grasping, mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies. Thus that form will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 10/24/2020
Give up desire for the aggregates and they will come to an end.At Sāvatthī. When Venerable Rādha was seated to one side, the Buddha said to him: “Rādha, you should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for form. Thus that form will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future. You should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for feeling … perception … choices … consciousness.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 10/23/2020
One who truly understand these five aggregates and is freed from them is a perfected one.At Sāvatthī. When Venerable Rādha was seated to one side, the Buddha said to him: “Rādha, there are these five grasping aggregates. What five? The grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. A mendicant comes to be freed by not grasping after truly understanding these five grasping aggregates’ origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 10/22/2020
One who truly understand these five aggregates is a stream-enterer.At Sāvatthī. When Venerable Rādha was seated to one side, the Buddha said to him: “Rādha, there are these five grasping aggregates. What five? The grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. When a noble disciple truly understands these five grasping aggregates’ origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape, they’re called a noble disciple who is a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, bound for awakening.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 10/21/2020
Only a true ascetic fully understands the five aggregates.At Sāvatthī. When Venerable Rādha was seated to one side, the Buddha said to him: “Rādha, there are these five grasping aggregates. What five? 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 10/20/2020
Only a true ascetic fully understands the five aggregates.At Sāvatthī. When Venerable Rādha was seated to one side, the Buddha said to him: “Rādha, there are these five grasping aggregates. What five? 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. I don’t regard them as true ascetics and brahmins. Those venerables don’t realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and don’t live having realized it with their own insight.
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