A couple of respondents said that any Sankhara could have, or be affected by craving.What aggregate would craving be considered?
I have no wish to re-open this debate and have no axe to grind here, but this got me wondering about where craving would be situated in "exhaustive" schemas such as the aggregates, or "The All": the six internal and external sense bases. I know it can affect any aspect of them, but where is it, so to speak, with regard to them? Do the Suttas ever explicitly indicate where craving falls in such schemata? And does anyone have any hints as to how it would be beneficial to regard this?
My initial naive thoughts are that craving would appear to be a type of Sankhara when talking about the aggregates; and of the sense base of the mind when dealing with the Salayatana. Does this make sense, and did the Buddha ever refer to it?
MN 137 http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html has "Explorations of the intellect", but I'm not sure if this is the same thing at all...