"the volitions that arise in connection with visible forms, sounds, odours"Dhammanando wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:04 amThe translators who translate sankhārakkhandha as "aggregate of volitional formations" do so because, (1) the suttas define this aggregate as cha cetanakāyā, "the six classes of volition" (i.e., the volitions that arise in connection with visible forms, sounds, odours, etc.) and never define it in any other way, and (2) because they dissent from the Abhidhamma's expansion of just cetanā to the fifty cetasikas.
they do a disservice by not explaining that. because the non-apiritual materialist reader always assumes the will to get to nibbana is included. but what am i saying? fools would twist it that way even if it were explained; the dhamma can only be understood by the wise (i.e. the spiritual)