Are the aggregates dukkha?

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Are the aggregates dukkha?

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What are your thoughts on this? I might ask Bhante G this in the morning.
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Yes.
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
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Thank you, friend
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SN 56.11 wrote: Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
“Life is swept along, short is the life span; no shelters exist for one who has reached old age. Seeing clearly this danger in death, a seeker of peace should drop the world’s bait.” SN 1.3
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technically; because the moment you get involved with them, there will be dukkha

oh screw it, time for schisms

the five aggregate teaching is a misinterpreted reformulation of dependent co-arising

there i said it; written plain and simple in mn 18:

form (rūpa, e.g. cakkhu) → sentience or contact (viññāṇa or phassa) → sensation (vedanā) → apperception (saññā) → volition (saṅkhāra, vitakka, papañca, saṅkha) → dukkha

saññā is the main culprit; the last few paragraphs of snp 4.11 present a solution for it

see you in aviici hell, suckers; or tusita heaven, who knows

ask bhante g about this =)
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SDC wrote: Sat Oct 02, 2021 11:58 pm
SN 56.11 wrote: Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
Pain itself is dukkha, as is change.
“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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Mr. Seek wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:03 am technically, because the moment you get involved with them, there will be dukkha

oh screw it, time for schisms

the five aggregate teaching is a misinterpreted reformulation of dependent co-arising

there i said it; written plain and simple in mn 18:

form (rūpa, e.g. cakkhu) → sentience or contact (viññāṇa or phassa) → sensation (vedanā) → apperception (saññā) → volition (saṅkhāra, vitakka, papañca, saṅkha) → dukkha

saññā is the main culprit, and how to get rid of it is described in the last few paragraphs of snp 4.11

see you in aviici hell, suckers; or tusita heaven, who knows

ask bhante g about this =)
The Buddha still made use of sañña. The Buddha still used concepts and labels. They just need to be understood.
“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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Only if you cling to them.

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Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.

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bodom wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:29 am Only if you cling to them.

:anjali:
The Buddha still experienced dukkha.
“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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Ceisiwr wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:19 am
SDC wrote: Sat Oct 02, 2021 11:58 pm
SN 56.11 wrote: Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
Pain itself is dukkha, as is change.
I don't disagree, but pain is easily misunderstood. SN 36.6 can shed some light.

I think SN 56.11 sums it up nicely: not to get what one wants is suffering.
“Life is swept along, short is the life span; no shelters exist for one who has reached old age. Seeing clearly this danger in death, a seeker of peace should drop the world’s bait.” SN 1.3
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Ceisiwr wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:28 am The Buddha still made use of sañña. The Buddha still used concepts and labels. They just need to be understood.
Ok maybe you're right, ill give you the benefit of the doubt; i corrected myself to

"saññā is the main culprit; the last few paragraphs of snp 4.11 present a solution for it"
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Ceisiwr wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:30 am
bodom wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:29 am Only if you cling to them.

:anjali:
The Buddha still experienced dukkha.
Please don't bring up the back ache!!! :tongue:
“Life is swept along, short is the life span; no shelters exist for one who has reached old age. Seeing clearly this danger in death, a seeker of peace should drop the world’s bait.” SN 1.3
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Ceisiwr wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:30 am
bodom wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:29 am Only if you cling to them.

:anjali:
The Buddha still experienced dukkha.
He didn't experience it as "I" or "mine". The Buddha experienced pain of course but there was no suffering around it. Two very different things. The second dart was removed by him.

:anjali:
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.

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SDC wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:39 am
Ceisiwr wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:19 am
SDC wrote: Sat Oct 02, 2021 11:58 pm
Pain itself is dukkha, as is change.
I don't disagree, but pain is easily misunderstood. SN 36.6 can shed some light.

I think SN 56.11 sums it up nicely: not to get what one wants is suffering.
“Mendicants, there are these three forms of suffering. What three? The suffering inherent in painful feeling; the suffering inherent in conditions; and the suffering inherent in perishing. These are the three forms of suffering." - SN 45.165

“And what, bhikkhus, is the passing away of suffering? In dependence on the eye and forms, eye-consciousness arises. The meeting of the three is contact. With contact as condition, feeling comes to be; with feeling as condition, craving. But with the remainderless fading away and cessation of that same craving comes cessation of clinging; with the cessation of clinging, cessation of existence; with the cessation of existence, cessation of birth; with the cessation of birth, aging-and-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair cease. Such is the cessation of this whole mass of suffering. This is the passing away of suffering." - SN 12.43

“Good, good, bhikkhu! These three feelings have been spoken of by me: pleasant feeling, painful feeling, neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. These three feelings have been spoken of by me. And I have also said: ‘Whatever is felt is included in suffering.’ That has been stated by me with reference to the impermanence of formations. That has been stated by me with reference to formations being subject to destruction … to formations being subject to vanishing … to formations being subject to fading away … to formations being subject to cessation … to formations being subject to change." SN 36.11

The Buddha still experienced dukkha, despite not clinging to anything, because all of conditioned existence and everything therein IS dukkha.
“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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bodom wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:41 am
Ceisiwr wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:30 am
bodom wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:29 am Only if you cling to them.

:anjali:
The Buddha still experienced dukkha.
He didn't experience it as "I" or "mine". The Buddha experienced pain of course but there was no suffering around it. Two very different things. The second dart was removed by him.

:anjali:
The 1st dart is still dukkha. Removing "I" doesn't change that. The Buddha still perceived dhammas as being dukkha. The Buddha saw things correctly. All conditioned dhammas are therefore dukkha.
“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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