Yellow Robe - A Real Buddhist's Journal

1. MN 9 Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta – Right View
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... grief, and despair are suffering; not to obtain what one wants is suffering; in short, the five aggregates affected by clinging are suffering. This is called suffering. 16. “And what is the origin of ...

2. MN 112 Chabbisodhana Sutta - The Sixfold Purity
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

...  “‘Friend, there are these five aggregates affected by clinging, rightly proclaimed by the Blessed One who knows and sees, accomplished and fully enlightened. What five? They are the material form aggregate ...

3. MN 109 Mahāpuṇṇama Sutta - The Greater Discourse on the Full-Moon Night
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... on your own seat, bhikkhu, and ask what you like.” So the bhikkhu sat on his own seat and said to the Blessed One: 4. “Are these not, venerable sir, the five aggregates affected by clinging; that is, ...

4. MN 122 Mahāsuññata Sutta - The Greater Discourse on Voidness
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... pleasure are abandoned in me.’ In this way he has full awareness of that. 16. “Ānanda, there are these five aggregates affected by clinging, in regard to which a bhikkhu should abide contemplating rise ...

5. MN 151 Piṇḍapātapārisuddhi Sutta - The Purification of Almsfood
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... “Again, Sāriputta, a bhikkhu should consider thus: ‘Are the five aggregates affected by clinging fully understood by me?’ If, by reviewing, he knows thus: ‘The five aggregates affected by clinging are ...

6. MN 149 Mahāsaḷāyatanika Sutta - The Great Sixfold Base
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... that arises with eye-contact as condition. “When one abides inflamed by lust, fettered, infatuated, contemplating gratification, then the five aggregates affected by clinging are built up for oneself ...

7. MN 141 Saccavibhanga Sutta - The Exposition of Truths
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... ageing is suffering; death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering; not to obtain what one wants is suffering; in short, the five aggregates affected by clinging are suffering. ...

8. MN 10 Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta – The Foundations of Mindfulness
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... as mind-objects in terms of the five hindrances. [The Five Aggregates] 38. “Again, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu abides contemplating mind-objects as mind-objects in terms of the five aggregates affected by ...

9. MN 1 Mūlapariyāya Sutta – The Root of All Things
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... of personal identity” (sakkāyasabba), that is, with reference to all states or phenomena (dhammā) comprised within the five aggregates affected by clinging (see MN 28.4). Supramundane states – the paths, ...

10. Books by Mahasi Sayadaw
(Books/Mahasi Sayadaw)

... to discuss about the Noble Ones and their qualities as well as an outline of the Buddha Dhamma in general. Discourse on Bhara Sutta, The Burden of the Five Aggregates A full discourse ...

11. Realizing the Eightfold Noble's Path through Vipassana Meditation
(Practice/Meditation)

... to nibbāna. This is the process. How is insight developed? Insight is developed by meditating on the five aggregates of attachment. Why and when do we meditate on the aggregates? We meditate on the ...

12. Practicing Vipassana Meditation without Jhana
(Practice/Meditation)

... to sit for a ling time, with body erect, and then contemplate by fixing his attention on the physical and mental phenomena, i.e. upadanakkhandha, or the Five Aggregates. These phenomena should be continuously ...

13. Tranquility VS Insight
(Practice/Meditation)

... you will have to work further. To return to our initial question, "How do we develop insight?" The answer is, "We develop insight by meditating on the five aggregates of attachment." The mental and ...

14. Is the teaching of five aggregates the same as the teaching of non-self?
(FAQs/Buddha's Teachings)

Yes, but one has to wisely understand the connection between the two doctrines. We advice you to take a thorough reading on both sections on our website.

15. What is Dependant Origination
(Teachings/Dependant Originations)

... Noble Path is likely to find it attractive. Those who taught ego-belief described the self as the owner of the five aggregates, as an independent entity, possessing free-will and self-determination. It ...

16. The Teaching of Non-Self
(Teachings/Non-Self)

... clinging is concerned with the aggregate of feelings which is explained fully in the Five Aggregates. The aggregate of material body is not self or a living entity, it is but non-self. It has been adequately ...

17. The Burden of the Five Aggregates
(Teachings/The Five Aggregates)

Bhara Sutta The Burden of the Five Aggregates BY MAHASI SAYADAW TRANSLATED BY MIN SWE SECRETARY Buddha Sasana Nuggaha Organization October, 1980 EDITED BY YI-LEI WU WEBMASTER ...

18. An Explanation of Rebirth
(Teachings/Rebirth)

... chariot." "Very good, sir, your majesty has rightly grasped the meaning. Even so it is because of the thirty-two kinds of organic matter in a human body and the five aggregates of being that I come ...

19. The Four Noble Truths
(Teachings/The Four Noble Truths)

... short, the five aggregates of grasping existence are all suffering." The Pali term "Dukkha" which for need of a better English equivalent, is generally translated as suffering or sorrow. As a feeling, ...

20. The Buddha's Life
(History/General)

... of Insight into the arising and ceasing of the five aggregates of grasping. This Insight gave him in succession the knowledge pertaining to the four Holy Paths, resulting finally in full Enlightenment ...