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	The Five Aggregates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The five aggregates (skandhas) are the scheme the Buddha chose to describe the nature of the individual human existence.
		That is to say, each of the five aggregates is an equal component of the individual, which amounts to a conventional self only when all are present and functioning.
		Briefly, the five aggregates are: the material organism (ruupa); sensation (vedanaa); conception (sa~nj~naa); volition (sam.skaara); and consciousness (vij~nana).
	villa.lakes.com /cdpatton/Dharma/Basics/5-skandhas.html (1142 words)

	The Five Aggregates By Ven Thubten Pende
		Rather than merely saying the body and mind the Buddha mentioned five classifications, and when he was teaching this he was using handfuls of grain to say there is this aggregate and this aggregate and this aggregate, five all together.
		The last aggregate is the aggregate of CONSCIOUSNESS and this is referring to the six consciousnesses, visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile and mental, which are the main means we come to know the various objects that compose reality.
		By phenomena there he meant the five aggregates, and for example because of mistaking the way in which the five aggregates exist, such as the body, mistaking the way in which it exists then we mistake the way the I exists which is dependent upon those aggregates.
	www.sacred-texts.com /bud/tib/five-agg.htm (17834 words)

	Turning the Wheel of Wonder: The Five Aggregates of Personality
		The five aggregates can be studied in sequence as they develop into or result in consciousness, but such a linear developmental sequence should be considered only for conventional purposes in relating to the physicality or physiology of brain functioning.
		The eight Consciousnesses are the five arising from the five senses, the sixth arising from thought, the seventh arising from fundamental discrimination, and the eighth which is the non-arising Consciousness which Western psychology calls the Unconscious.
		The five aggregates are also called the five grasping aggregates because with the fifth aggregate of Consciousnesses the grasping of attachment to various elements of all of the aggregates arises and creates a total conglomeration which in Buddhism is called the suffering of selfhood.
	wonderwheels.blogspot.com /2004/11/five-aggregates-of-personality.html (1408 words)

	Fundamentals of Buddhism: The Five Aggregates
		And as in the case of the five physical sense organs, consciousness is present to unite the mind and its object so as to produce experience.
		There is one point that has to be remembered regarding the nature of the five aggregates, and that is that each and all of them are in constant change.
		The elements that constitute the aggregate of form are impermanent and are in a state of constant change.
	www.buddhanet.net /funbud14.htm (2016 words)

	LOVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The object being observed is the five aggregates of the existence.
		The final results of the process of meditative observation are the perception that the five aggregates are empty (of self - existence) and the consequent total liberation from all sufferings and distresses.
		Aggregates, external bases, spheres, the Chain of the 12 Factors and the Four Noble Truths are used to describe the physical and psychological world which in nature is empty.
	www.lotuspro.net /vanhanh/giangphap/heartsutra.htm (3803 words)

	The Five Aggregates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It has even been suggested that, in the analysis of personal experience in terms of the five aggregates, we have a psychological equivalent to the table of elements worked out in modern science--that is to say, a very careful inventory and evaluation of the elements of our experience.
		Specifically, the aggregate of form includes the five physical sense organs and the corresponding material objects of those sense organs: the eyes and visible objects, the ears and audible objects, the nose and olfactory objects, the tongue and objects of taste, and the skin and tangible objects.
		And as in the case of the five physical sense organs, consciousness must be present to unite the mind and its object so as to produce experience.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/bodhisattva/ch12.html (1816 words)

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		Thus, in their transformed mode of being, the five aggregates appear as the five celestial Buddhas: the aggregate of form, when purified, appears in the form of the Buddha Vairochana; feeling, in the form of Ratnasambhava; perception, in the form of Amitabha; volition, in the form of Amoghasiddhi; and consciousness, in the form of Akshobhya.
		Thus the transformed aggregate of form is the Buddha Vairochana, and this transformation similarly implies a transformation from the affliction of ignorance to the transcendental knowledge of the true nature of all things, or emptiness.
		In Vajrayana psychology, therefore, we have aggregates, afflictions, and elements on the ordinary, impure level which are transformed on the purified level into the five celestial Buddhas, the five transcendental knowledges, and the five female deities who are consorts of the five celestial Buddhas.
	www.ecst.csuchico.edu /~dsantina/tree/ch26.txt (2516 words)

	THE TRUE NATURE OF EXISTENCE - By Bhikkhu Bodhi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		They are called the five aggregates of clinging because they form the basis for clinging.
		The five aggregates are our burden, but at the same time they provide us with the indispensable soil of wisdom.
		To fully understand the five aggregates means to see them as they really are, and this means to see them in terms of the three characteristics of existence, that is, impermanence, unsatisfactoriness or suffering, and selflessness or non-self.
	www.beyondthenet.net /dhamma/fiveAggregates.htm (379 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The term “aggregates” (in Pali, kðhðaðnðdðhðað) means a collection, a heap of factors. Each of the five aggregates is called a khandha because each includes under itself many factors. A kðhðaðnðdðhðað is a category or a classification containing a whole set of phenomena that share a common characteristic.
		The five aggregates are subject to constant rise and fall and when we compare this rise and fall with our desire for peace, for stability, then the rise and fall of the process seems oppressive.
		The aggregates cannot be identified as a self because the self must be lasting, simple, unconditioned, and subject to mastery, whereas the five aggregates are impermanent, compounded, conditioned, and not subject to mastery.
	www.birken.ca /texts/nature.doc (6126 words)

	How Offense, Non-offense and Beings Can't Be Gotten At
		If it were the case that the five aggregates constituted a being, then this would be a case where they would be born naturally and die naturally just like grass or trees.
		If one holds that there exists a being apart from the five aggregates, this is the same as was already refuted in the prior discussion which addressed the fallacy of a spiritual soul (aatman) which is supposedly eternally-existent and universally pervasive.
		It is based on the causes and conditions of the five aggregates that the dharma of a being exists.
	www.kalavinka.org /jewels/nagajuna/mppu/websila/noget.htm (1369 words)

	Buddhism in a Nutshell - The Five Aggregates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The teaching of The Five Aggregates or The Five Skandhas, is an analysis of personal experiences and a view on cognition from a Buddhist perspective.
		The aggregate of mental formation may be described as a conditioned response to the object of experience.
		Firstly, the first five consciousness are not related to each other, mind consciousness is their co-ordinator, establishing an entire meaningful idea or impression for a living being.
	www.buddhistdoor.com /passissue/9607/sources/teach11.htm (736 words)

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		In man these five components are all present together, his physical body is the material aggregate: his mental aspect is divisible into four aggregates, which we shall now describe.
		The first of the mental aggregates is feelling (vedana), which is of three kinds, namely pleasure or gratification, displeasure or suffering, and a neutral kind, which is neither pleasure nor displeasure, but which is a kind of feeling nevertheless.
		When we analyse "the individual" into these five components, there is nothing left over, proving that he consists of just these components and that there is nothing that might be "his self." Not even thinking is a self as the average man commonly supposes.
	www.wfb-hq.org /bud6.htm (3305 words)

	The Five Aggregates LJG1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The subject of the five aggregates is a very complex and extensive one, with lots of nomenclature, classifications and lists; so it can be a very elaborate teaching.
		The way of analysing the composite nature of all phenomena is considering five groups of elements which compose the totality of our being and the whole of reality, according to Buddhism, and which we call the five aggregates (skandhas).
		This aggregate is what we generally talk about when we speak of meditation: thoughts and emotions, and the way to relate to them wisely, not letting our minds be carried away by them.
	www.samyeling.org /Teachers/LamaJinpa/ljgwheel1aggregates.htm (12884 words)

	Aggregates Manager Headline News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Aggregates companies are failing to come close to replenishing the sand and gravel and crushed rock that they extract each year.
		Aggregate Industries, acquired earlier this year by the Swiss cement industry giant Holcim Ltd., is the dominant concrete producer in the state, with plants in Everett, Dorchester, Saugus, Swampscott, Watertown, Waltham, Wilmington, and beyond.
		When companies such as Aggregate Industries created batches of concrete at their plants, inspectors for the project randomly tested the material to ensure that it had the right mix of stone, water, chemicals, sand, and cement and the correct consistency and strength.
	www.aggman.com /articles/news.htm (14295 words)

	The Five Aggregates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The next Dhamma [teaching, mind-object] in the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness is the five aggregates: "Again, one abides contemplating Dhammas as Dhammas in terms of the five aggregates affected by clinging." The five aggregates are the objects to which we start clinging.
		Now in order to do this, one has to know the aggregates, and the aggregates tend to be something that generates some confusion, because the aggregates includes a pattern, parts of which appear in other places.
		So the aggregates fit into dependent origination, but they are not the same as any set of the steps, they are not the same as five of the steps or any subset of steps.
	home.alamedanet.net /~leighb/khandas.htm (2778 words)

	Last Updated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The other three aggregates (# 2,3 and 4) are forms of activity that arises in the interactions between the body and mind.
		Each of the five aggregates is a component of the individual, which amounts to a conventional self only when all are present and functioning.
		Everyone has form (body) and knowing; having attained the recognition that the five skandhas are empty does not mean one has to endeavor to abandon the body.
	www.uwec.edu /greider/Buddha/Buddhism.Course/Five.Skandhas.htm (684 words)

	Skandhas
		The Buddhist view is that every individual is an entity composed of five categories of phenomena or qualities that may be thought of as aggregates, skandhas in Sanskrit; sometimes translated as heaps or accumulations.
		These five aggregates or formations, the skandas, are not ultimate and eternal in nature but are conditioned.
		Called form, feeling, perception, formation and consciousness, they are labeled the Five Aggregates because in turn they too are not solid indivisible whole entities and are made up of even smaller parts.
	www.khandro.net /doctrine_skandhas.htm (959 words)

	FIVE AGGREGATES ¤ Ä (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is a response which has one of the six senses as its basis, and one of the six corresponding eternal phenomena as its object.
		The 1st aggregates constitutes the physical part (¦â ªk) and the other four aggregates constitute the mental energy (¤ß ªk) of our existence.
		These five elements together constitute what we called " self." From the above discussion, we can see that all five elements are constantly changing, so a permanent self cannot be found.
	www.geocities.com /lonely_penquin/aggregates.html (333 words)

	Han-shan's Heart Sutra Commentary
		The five aggregates are precisely that state which is the object of contemplation.
		This is an explanation directed specifically to the "Son of Egret" which explains the meaning of the previous statement that the five aggregates are all empty.
		The five aggregates are the five fundamental components of being which the typical worldling seizes upon as constituting a "self": forms, feeling, perception, compositional factors, and consciousness.
	www.kalavinka.org /jewels/hanshan/hsheart1.htm (5113 words)

	Dhammakaya Foundation / Tripitaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Specifically, the aggregate of form includes the five physical sense organs and the corresponding material objects: the nose and olfactory objects, the tongue and objects of taste, the skin, and tangible objects.
		Just as the five physical sense organs have their corresponding material objects, the mind has for its object ideas or properties (dhammas).
		Your aggregate of volition responds with a conditioned reaction---sitting at attention, daydreaming, or perhaps yawning.
	www.dhammakaya.or.th /teachings/tipitaka-14.htm (1366 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Five Aggregates: Understanding Theravada Psychology and Soteriology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		What we conventionally call a 'person' can be understood in terms of the five aggregates, the sum of which must not be taken for a permanent entity, since beings are nothing but an amalgam of ever-changing phenomena.
		Although the aggregates are only a 'convenient fiction', the Buddha nevertheless made frequent use of the aggregate scheme when asked to explain the elements at work in the individual.
		Boisvert contends that without a thorough understanding of the five aggregates, we cannot grasp the liberation process at work within the individual, who is, after all, simply an amalgam of these.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0889202575/photobinbook-21 (406 words)

	Old News Archive: August 1997
		Direct knowledge of the "fourfold round" with respect to the aggregates (knowledge of the aggregate, of its origination, of its cessation, and of the path leading to its cessation) leads to Awakening.
		The Buddha explains that it is by understanding that each of the five aggregates is inconstant, fabricated, and dependently co-arisen.
		The Buddha explains that a person who incorrectly takes the five aggregates to be "self" is like a man swept away by a swift river, who grasps in vain at trees and clumps of grass as he rushes by.
	www.accesstoinsight.org /oldnews/news9708.html (639 words)

	The Five Aggregates
		Contact is the cause, contact the condition, for the delineation of the aggregate of fabrications.
		There is the case where a monk — having gone to the wilderness, to the shade of a tree, or to an empty building — reflects thus: 'Form is inconstant, feeling is inconstant, perception is inconstant, fabrications are inconstant, consciousness is inconstant.' Thus he remains focused on inconstancy with regard to the five aggregates.
		"Five Piles of Bricks: The Khandhas as Burden and Path" by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
	www.accesstoinsight.org /lib/study/khandha.html (10352 words)

	Nightly.Net: Buddhism and the five aggregates of attachment
		According to Buddhists philosophy, it is these five things that make up what we call a "self." What we call "you," "me," or "I" is nothing more than a combination of the five aggregates, which are always changing from one moment to the next.
		Sinse the five aggregates are conditioned apun the senses, the idea of a "self" could not exist without the idea of an external world.
		The idea that the Self is simply an illusory concept driven by the five aggregates seems to preclude any essence that could continue from one life to the next.
	www.nightly.net /ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/73/101.html (5076 words)

	Aracaria Biodynamic Farm - Buddhism - The Five Aggregates
		Aracaria Biodynamic Farm - Buddhism - The Five Aggregates
		Together these five ‘heaps’ of processes incessantly change and interact; and yet manas, the mind, mistakes their illusory flux for its changeless and immortal self.
		These five constituent aggregates of the illusory individuality incessantly change and interact, and it is their flux that we mis-identify as a fixed individuality.
	www.aracaria.com.au /study_stuff/buddhism/Five_Aggregates.htm (338 words)

	Miscellany
		If it is taken together with the fact that the five aggregates are void of attá, it implies that the five aggregates and nibbána are on the same level.
		But nibbána is, in fact, void of the five aggregates.
		But the five aggregates (which are real) are, in fact, void of attá (which is imaginary).
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9366/misc.htm (1500 words)

	index continued
		Those who don't penetrate the not-self nature of the five aggregates are doomed to go round and round in circles, like a dog tied to a post.
		A summary of the five mental faculties: conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment.
		This is the Buddha's first discourse, delivered shortly after his Awakening to the group of five monks with whom he had practiced the austerities in the forest for many years.
	www.vipassana.com /canon/samyutta/indexpart2.php (2951 words)

	Interlude Meditation Archive
		In botany, an aggregate fruit is one, like a raspberry, made up of a cluster of little fruitlets.
		Similarly, each of the five aggregates is made up of a combination of mental forces or energies.
		When we combine our bodies, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness, we arrive at a construct, a mental formation, that we consider to be "I" or "me." When we grasp at the Five Aggregates, we have, inevitably, suffering.
	www.interluderetreat.com /meditate/aggregate.htm (954 words)

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