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Poster lesson 17 / 63 · Intermediate
The Five Aggregates
The artwork is preserved from the original collection. Read the accompanying explanation for context and distinctions between traditions.
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The five aggregates are form, feeling tone, perception, formations and consciousness. Feeling here means pleasant, painful or neutral tone, not every emotion. The teaching examines what we identify with as “me” or “mine”. These categories are not a modern neuroscience model. During irritation, distinguish bodily sensation, unpleasantness, a label, an impulse and awareness; this is a reflective exercise, not a rigid diagnostic procedure.
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