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What are the aggregates made up of?
Rupa(form):
Patavi (earth element or hardness/softness)
Apo (water element or cohesion)
Tejo (fire element or heat/cold)
Vayo (air element or motion)
24 secondary elelments
Vedana(feeling)
bodily ...
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Why is there no self in the container of the 5 aggregates?
This is the problem with mixing up ultimate reality with conventional reality. In ultimate reality, the cat does not exist. What is real is the tactile experience of the touch. That experience is an ...
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What are the aggregates made up of?
"Aggregate" in "Five Aggregates" is a common translation of the Sanskrit word "skandha" or Pali "khandha". Other translations of skandha include "heap", "group", "collection". The image for this is a ...
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Other than physical form which characteristics define a woman?
The Pali scriptures refer to the 'faculty of femininity' ('itthindriya'), as follows:
Mendicants, there are these three faculties.What three? The faculties
of femininity (itthindriya),
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At which stage of enlightenment are the aggregates seen as not-self fully?
The conceit ‘I am’ is the 8th fetter; only fully eradicated by an Arahant.
Bhikkhus, there are these five higher fetters. What five? Lust for form, lust for the formless, conceit, restlessness, ...
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Why five aggregates instead of just three?
Very good question, which i imagine i will post more about at a later time.
Firstly, about the translations, I suspect the translations of "paññāpeti" as "delineate", "...
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How can Name-and-form be the cause and condition for the manifestation of the consciousness aggregate?
From the Mahanidana Sutta (DN15):
"If one is asked, 'From what requisite condition does contact come?'
one should say, 'Contact comes from name-and-form as its requisite
condition.'
"If ...
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separating consciousness-feeling-perception
"Feeling, perception, & consciousness are conjoined, friend, not
disjoined. It is not possible, having separated them one from another,
to delineate the difference among them. For what one ...
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What are the aggregates made up of?
1.Khandha/aggregate definition
If I am not wrong, the aggregates are called aggregates because they are the sum total of many heterogenous things taken together.
Khandha-word is used in tipitaka 3 ...
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Responsibility in Buddhism
Your question is a variation of the question, "if there is no self, then who is responsible for actions?"
The Buddha rubbished the notion that there is no self doing anything, in the Attakari Sutta:
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At which stage of enlightenment are the aggregates seen as not-self fully?
At each stage of awakening, good householder, but only on the last, highest stage one would no more take on them again, even not in refined spheres.
Of course it can be that one isn't aware of the ...
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Why is there no self in the container of the 5 aggregates?
Is government a physical object?
I imagine the 5 aggregates happening within a frame, which is a different one for every living creature.
Governments can shape "actions of the country", but in the ...
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Why is there no self in the container of the 5 aggregates?
Just as, with an assemblage of parts,
The word 'chariot' is used,
So, when the aggregates are present,
There's the convention 'a being.'
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/bl143.html
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At which stage of enlightenment are the aggregates seen as not-self fully?
Sakkaya Dithi (self-view) is fully eliminated in the Sotapanna (stream-enterer) stage.
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Clinging to perception aggregate
Feelings or sensations (vedana) are of six types - sight, sound, smell, taste, tactile and thoughts.
Emotional thoughts and mental chatter are part of sankhara or mental formations or mental ...
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What is first? Vedanā (feeling) or saññā (perception)?
This is strange, the sutra, MN43 that you quoted had already mentioned that feeling, perception and consciousness are tied together.
“Feeling, perception, & consciousness are conjoined, friend, ...
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What does Buddhism say about attention?
Attention is focused awareness. It's the connection between the simple awareness of Buddha-nature and the active world of 'doing'.
For most of us, attention is constantly moving from one focus to ...
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What does Buddhism say about attention?
The Buddha spoke of abandoning the effluents by seeing (MN 2). He instructed to not attend to things unfit for attention and to attend to things fit for attention.
Attention should be placed for ...
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Question on salayatana
In Pali, there are at least two words translated as 'arise':
Samudaya - what is the arising (samudayo) of form, feeling, perception, mental formations and consciousness? It is when a monnk approves, ...
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Question on Phassa
Only when there is avijja such as touch arises, good householder. Whereas Not-knowing has been uprooted, consciousness would no more land.
May one 'be' touched by vijja!
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Nirodha samapatti - cessation of all, or only clinging, perception and feeling?
Does nirodha samapatti aka saññā-vedayita-nirodha refer to a super trance-like state beyond the 8th jhana in which the practitioner becomes completely unconscious without any mental activity (like ...
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Why five aggregates instead of just three?
In your question you say, "it is not possible to separate them or delineate them or disjoin them."
But Ven. Thanissaro's translation says: "It is not possible, having separated them one ...
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What are the five kinds of seeds?
here Consciousness+nutriment is like the a seed, like in https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an03/an03.077.than.html
but with karma-field replacing the 4 stations-earth for the seed...
But the ...
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What are the five kinds of seeds?
What is consciousness together with its nutriment, that forms five kinds of seeds? What five?
From Ven. Bodhi's note in "Middle Length Discourses":
Nutriment (ahara) is to be understood ...
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Is Intention a sankhara?
1) In the aggregates, 'sankhara' are kammic formations.
Mmmm... I wouldn't say that. All "kammic formations" are "sankhara" but not all sankhara are kammic formations. For example, a Buddha has ...
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Is Intention a sankhara?
1) In the aggregates, 'sankhara' are kammic formations.
Yes. Sankhara creates future results. So karmaic results are due to Sankhara. Sankhara is like the seed which germinates into the result.
2) ...
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If consciousness arises from mental formations is it correct to say that consciousness has a specific tone or opinions with it?
Good question. The way it was explained to me, the twelve nidanas are all "made" from each other, they are all made from the same "stuff". It's like when there is water, the wave on the water and the ...
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Is it wrong-view to think there might be more than 5 aggregates?
It is not wrong view to think there might be more aggregates. The aggregates are merely a summary of the things clung to. What is right view is the understanding that clinging to the aggregates is ...
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Is it wrong-view to think there might be more than 5 aggregates?
There are only two realities: saṅkhāra (dependent origination such as aggregate) and asaṅkhāra (no dependent origination such as nibbāna). All others are paññatti (concept;imagine;not reality) because ...
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