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**Auzuigcx** · 08-19-2012, 07:14 AM

2 cents,

The five aggregates is my favourite doctrine along all the nikayas.

They are like hearing a Mozart's string quintet. Each aggregate has its proper tune to watch at. All them together bring us into the idea of something there -slef- but when each aggregate is dissected and examined mindfully we can see that 'it is non self'.

The aggregates are also an outstanding teaching about 'our' cognitive properties and where, how and why we cling.

Cognitive sciences are trying to explain the same phenomenon that the aggregates have explained plain and simple.

One of the Truths -to be discern- explain clearly that the origin of mental suffering is at the level of 'clinging to the aggregates'. We just need to give a look there.

08-19-2012, 07:14 AM	#7
Auzuigcx Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 478 Senior Member	2 cents, The five aggregates is my favourite doctrine along all the nikayas. They are like hearing a Mozart's string quintet. Each aggregate has its proper tune to watch at. All them together bring us into the idea of something there -slef- but when each aggregate is dissected and examined mindfully we can see that 'it is non self'. The aggregates are also an outstanding teaching about 'our' cognitive properties and where, how and why we cling. Cognitive sciences are trying to explain the same phenomenon that the aggregates have explained plain and simple. One of the Truths -to be discern- explain clearly that the origin of mental suffering is at the level of 'clinging to the aggregates'. We just need to give a look there.
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