"When analyzing the six sense-doors, do we find various humans, devas, brahmas, animals, hungry ghosts, and demons, or do we find just five aggregates?
Is it because beings don't exist that we don't find them, or because they exist? If they don't exist, is there any need to cling to concepts of humans, devas, or brahmas? What we find isn't beings but five aggregates. Only_aggregates_are_found.
How do these five aggregates exist? Let's investigate:
- Form aggregate: (Nature of breaking up and destruction, Lord)
- Feeling aggregate: (Nature of experiencing, arising and passing, Lord)
- Perception aggregate: (Nature of recognizing, arising and passing, Lord)
- Formation aggregate: (Nature of volition, arising and passing, Lord)
- Consciousness aggregate: (Nature of knowing, arising and passing, Lord)
These five aggregates - they cease after seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, knowing. Do we find aggregates or their non-existence? If they don't exist, how can we cling?
Since beings never existed to begin with, is there anything to cling to? The five aggregates that seem to exist - don't they arise and pass away? Can they be clung to? Doesn't this break identity-view?
Will someone who's broken identity-view commit unwholesome bodily actions like killing, stealing, sexual misconduct?
Will they commit unwholesome verbal actions like lying, divisive speech, harsh speech, idle chatter?
Will they commit unwholesome mental actions like covetousness, ill-will, wrong view?
When_these_cease_kamma_leading_to_lower_realms_ends. When that ends, doesn't the cycle of lower realm births end? Isn't this worth investigating?"
Sadhu! Together let us keep the Dharma wheel rolling.
Is it because beings don't exist that we don't find them, or because they exist? If they don't exist, is there any need to cling to concepts of humans, devas, or brahmas? What we find isn't beings but five aggregates. Only_aggregates_are_found.
How do these five aggregates exist? Let's investigate:
- Form aggregate: (Nature of breaking up and destruction, Lord)
- Feeling aggregate: (Nature of experiencing, arising and passing, Lord)
- Perception aggregate: (Nature of recognizing, arising and passing, Lord)
- Formation aggregate: (Nature of volition, arising and passing, Lord)
- Consciousness aggregate: (Nature of knowing, arising and passing, Lord)
These five aggregates - they cease after seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, knowing. Do we find aggregates or their non-existence? If they don't exist, how can we cling?
Since beings never existed to begin with, is there anything to cling to? The five aggregates that seem to exist - don't they arise and pass away? Can they be clung to? Doesn't this break identity-view?
Will someone who's broken identity-view commit unwholesome bodily actions like killing, stealing, sexual misconduct?
Will they commit unwholesome verbal actions like lying, divisive speech, harsh speech, idle chatter?
Will they commit unwholesome mental actions like covetousness, ill-will, wrong view?
When_these_cease_kamma_leading_to_lower_realms_ends. When that ends, doesn't the cycle of lower realm births end? Isn't this worth investigating?"
Sadhu! Together let us keep the Dharma wheel rolling.
