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Relation between five aggregates and four establishments of mindfulness?

Form is the four great elements that the physical universe is made of, including the body. Since we naturally take the body to be our self, that's what they would normally have us examine, but you can ...
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Relation between five aggregates and four establishments of mindfulness?

What I think, the so called body is your perception of self. your Ideas of self. Even your breath is idea. breath and body are mental constructions. perceived as Mine. Hence Body contemplation is ...
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Relation between five aggregates and four establishments of mindfulness?

1st aggregate = rupa = form or materiality = earth, wind, fire, water (SN 12.2; AN 9.15; SN 12.61). MN 62 contains detailed description. Also SN 22.79. 1st satipatthana = kaya = 'group' = 'sabba-kaya' ...
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Mindfullness and Imagination

One significant verse from the Satipatthana Sutta (MN 10) regarding mental objects states: “How does a monk contemplate mental objects as mental objects? A monk knows a thought as a thought; he knows ...
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