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The five aggregates can be watched directly: body, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness. Seeing them arise and pass away loosens clinging little by little. The practice is often quiet and ordinary.

#Dhamma #buddhism #mindfulness #meditation #fiveaggregates #Theravada
May 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Twenty five to two
Borrowed robes: carnality
Death calls in all debts

Clinging aggregates
Threadbare saint or gilded fool
Ever changing Thames

#haiku #thames #fiveaggregates paraphrasing Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
December 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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The #FiveAggregates in #Buddhism show self as process, not entity. Examining #form, #feeling, #perception, #formations & #consciousness shows #impermanence & #nonself, guiding to the end of #suffering.

🌍https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-05-30-skandha/

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Figure of a deity (oceanic art), Nukuoro, Caroline Islands, Micronesia, 19th century, wood, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, Germany. In Buddhist thought, the person as conventionally perceived is not a substantial self (ātman), but rather a provisional designation based on the five skandha — form (rūpa), sensation (vedanā), perception (saṃjñā), mental formations (saṃskāra) and consciousness (vijñāna). Just as this wooden figure evokes the human form without representing an individual person, so too does the self in Buddhist thought emerge from the dynamic interplay of impermanent aggregates, empty of intrinsic essence yet functionally coherent.
September 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM