Are the aggregates dukkha?

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Re: Are the aggregates dukkha?

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bpallister wrote: Sat Oct 23, 2021 4:41 pm
Ceisiwr wrote: Sun Oct 10, 2021 8:22 pm
nmjojola wrote: Sun Oct 10, 2021 8:19 pm

With phassanirodha there is vedananirodha, with vedananirodha, there is tanhanirdoha, with tanhanirodha there is upadananirodha, and upadananirodha is synonymous with dukkhanirodha.

Phassanirodha takes care of the feeling issue. There is no feeling issue in the case of the Arahant or Buddha: "Contacts contact depends on grouond, how could contacts contact a groundless one?" - Upadana
If your interpretation was correct then the Buddha would have just disappeared under the Bodhi tree. Thankfully it isn’t right, because dependent origination isn’t a model of strict causality where A causes B which causes C. Rather it’s conditional. Birth is a condition for death, but it doesn’t cause death. Birth and death, despite being conditionally related, can be separated by some time. Cessation then in dependent origination isn’t instant. Rather it’s more of a winding down, like the final embers slowly growing cold.
what if the Buddha did disappear under the Bodhi tree, and the rest of his lifespan he was a hologram or deep fake? :anjali:
According to the Mahāsāṃghika the Buddha was never here. It was only a mental projection that the world seen.
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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