Five Aggregates as they truly are, rather than through conceptual ideas about beings or self.

"When examining the six sense doors, do we find different types of beings or just the Five Aggregates? Are beings not found because they don't exist? If they don't exist, is there any basis for clinging to ideas of humans, devas, or brahmas? What we actually find is not beings but the Five Aggregates. Let's examine how these Five Aggregates exist: 1. Rūpakkhandha (Form aggregate) - what's its nature? (The nature of changing and destroying). Do we find it or its absence? If absent, how can we cling to it? 2. Vedanākkhandha (Feeling aggregate) - what's its nature? (The nature of experiencing). Do we find it or its absence? 3. Saññākkhandha (Perception aggregate) - what's its nature? (The nature of recognizing). Do we find it or its absence? 4. Saṅkhārakkhandha (Formations aggregate) - what's its nature? (The nature of volition). Do we find it or its absence? 5. Viññāṇakkhandha (Consciousness aggregate) - what's its nature? (The nature of knowing). Do we find it or its absence? Aren't these Five Aggregates taught as arising and passing away? We need to study these aggregates carefully. 'Beings' are just conventional designations. Did beings exist from the beginning? If not, how can we cling to them? What we find are not beings but the Five Aggregates. These aggregates arise and pass away. Can they be a basis for clinging? When examined this way, doesn't identity-view (sakkāya-diṭṭhi) fall away? When identity-view falls away, will one still commit unwholesome actions through body, speech, or mind? If not, one becomes a Stream-enterer, free from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, and wrong views. This is why we practice to understand the aggregates. Practice is given to understand the aggregates. Without understanding aggregates, though one practices, can it be fruitful? There are different kinds of work - kamma work, jhāna work, but do these lead beyond the 31 planes of existence? Only vipassanā knowledge and path knowledge lead beyond the 31 planes. Though all called 'work', is kamma the same as jhāna? Is jhāna the same as wisdom? Like Uggasena, who while performing on a sixty-foot bamboo pole, received the Buddha's teaching. When he turned his wisdom to the aggregates, didn't he become a Stream-enterer? A Once-returner? A Non-returner? An Arahant? This is wisdom work. We need to understand the aggregates, the Noble Truths, and Dependent Origination. Only through understanding can we abandon [defilements]. Without understanding, can we abandon them? Strive to understand..."