Understanding The Five Aggregates (Skandhas) - Cliff Wallshein
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- Опубліковано 25 бер 2016
- Member's Talk by Cliff Wallshein (Won Bup Shin) (Mar/20/2016) @ Won Buddhism of Manhattan
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Buddha turned his mind inward and realized that all he or (we), could ever know about the world- was that which --we could be conscious of. This holds true even today, for no matter how powerful the instruments we create they are ultimately just extensions or augmentations to of our existing senses.
It's only the last 100 years we in the west broke the mind into 2 parts the unconscious that which is experiential yet unknown, and the information that is potentially available to know, or Known our “field of consciousness” or simply consciousness.
Buddha observed that for there to be Consciousness. There has to be consciousness ..of something.
He pointed out that there are only -2 basic objects we can be conscious of physical objects or the physical world; which is Sense consciousness, the source of which is stimulus from the nerves of the corresponding sense organs (Eye ear nose)and contact with their respective physical object and mental objects that is all thoughts…, ideas, memories visualizations, desires and so on arising in the mind.
The Body is considered the source of the physical sense organs it is called Rupa ( Pali for Form) and the Mind is the source of mental object or thoughts Nama (which in pali means “name”), Together these are known as the 6 sense bases. These are the building blocks from which we create our reality and our sense of self. The misconstruction (misconception) of which is called ignorance, in Buddhism this is considered to be the root cause of all suffering.
I just want to say:
I'm in love.
In love
with a special person,
in love with myself,
in love with life,
in love with God,
in love with all that I AM,
in love with all that is.
I love life.
I've spent my whole life
in a suicidal hell,
and for the first time ever,
that's all permanently shifting
NOW.
Very insightful talk. Amazing to learn that such wisdom already existed 2500 years ago and its proven to be applicable today.
Sadly, no sutta was quoted (e.g., about physical & mental logic, etc.) and the context was kept unknown. The five aggregates are functions of a human being to identify himself as a "self". Apart from the cognization of those functions, human would not know what a self was.
Furthermore, it is a wrong rephrasing of the word "sensation" with "feeling". Feeling is the judging function (pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain) after sensation ("contact" in sutta).
Thank you so much Cliff Wallshein for explaining 5 aggregates in a very scientific ways. May it benefit all the sentient beings to be awaken from the deep sleep of ignorance.
Wonderful. In my research of the Skandhas I came across this video and it has helped me tremendously.
Bruh, I started learning Buddhism as a Westener around the time that adolescence set in and Roman Catholicism began to become a disagreeable establishment in my life. I've always been a reader and a learner, whatever that means. Buddhism has therefore been a periodic mainstay which I turn to periodically, and have done so for 3 decades. The word skandha and kandha popped into my mind tonight, alone, on the back porch of summer with a candle going and some other substances recently taken into my body that, once again, takes me into the rabbit hole. No awakening here, but gratitude that this dissimination of timeless teaching exists to allow the heart and mind to focus on these teachcings.
Sadly, no sutta was quoted (e.g., about physical & mental logic, etc.) and the context was kept unknown. The five aggregates are functions of a human being to identify himself as a "self". Apart from the cognization of those functions, human would not know what a self was.
Furthermore, it is a wrong rephrasing of the word "sensation" with "feeling". Feeling is the judging function (pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain) after sensation ("contact" in sutta).
Fantastic and far reaching. Very nice to be brought back to the simple foundations of the heart sutra. Concise, real world examples of the components and concepts that compose the human experience. Well done.
fantastic!
Loved it!!!
Excellent explanations! Let us always be aware of the impermanence of the Self.
Skanda = Mass. Mass has attraction just like gravity and it bends as a fabric . Emotions gives the perceptions (distorts).
The paradoxical nature of the being free of them is that there is no constancy of a self that can be free of them, primarily because the self is the aggregates. So, using the aggregates to free ones self from the aggregates.. 🎉
mirin vid brah. liked
nice
13:37 if everything we experience is in our own minds, the only way to access reality is your own mind
Aggregates are the things we can be conscious of.
That's me
What is the speaker's name please?
Cliff Wallshein
Sadly, no sutta was quoted (e.g., about physical & mental logic, etc.) and the context was kept unknown. The five aggregates are functions of a human being to identify himself as a "self". Apart from the cognization of those functions, human would not know what a self was.
Furthermore, it is a wrong rephrasing of the word "sensation" with "feeling". Feeling is the judging function (pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain) after sensation ("contact" in sutta).
This is when structured superficiality is sold as "Profound" to the living wandering dead minds.
A Hindu God Kartikeya is also called Skanda.
Consciousness can exist without objects.
Deep sleep.
But with mental objects
Objects from memory are also objects.
Khanha! in Pali.
Bounma Boulanger it's TANHA
Bounma Boulanger. Or perhaps you meant kHANDA- aggregates
25oo yrs not 25000.Thanks
He has wonderful voice. It smelled of meat for a wolf, it sounded call for a feast. It featured a nice juicy chunnks/rump of a steak? It started the salivating of tongue. Where is the taste? When your tongue feasts on it?. It is all emptiness.
sound is terrible, sounds like static
Cool
I can understand it okay
@@thomasjansen9822 didnt say i couldnt understand it, only that the sound is of poor quality.
is it fun whiteknighting/gatekeeping?
i see so many losers doing it, hows it working out?
@@kierenbonner8419 Good point, usually not very well. Have you heard that joke about the helper-type standing on a "helpee's" oxygen cord? That's me standing on the cord. Thank you for helping me to see the effect. On another note, do you happen to know the speaker's name?
Boats and submarines powered by electric eels.
I just invented it . Yeah between eels and solar power, I could power my pirate ship where I will leave. I'm not kidding. The combined power here is clean useable power .
I've seen very powerful totally electric engines on motorcycles . Harley Davidson
Has one on the market 30,000.
A Bit too loud and excellerate .. missing the Soul and Heart .. sorry
Very nice speach, but Fucked up sound
Please explain the Trump trashing at 21:53 I didn't come here to hear your politic views. I voted for him and I am ok with that. Obviously you shouldn't be giving dharma talks yet. Very disappointed in you and Won Buddhism...will just go elsewhere
yeah just do that, go eslewhere
@Dean Miller clever comment . 👍
Angel1
I've noticed a lot of buddhist talks broach partisan politics as well. It's not a good look. Not very constructive.
Although it was 4 years ago…. You requested an explanation. You framed it as “Trump trashing”. The discussion was about how our belief systems manifest in social space/in the world. Did you take offense at the speaker describing these forces as resulting in extreme ideology? He’s talking about blind spots and the subtle games our minds play. That’s the point. Throughout history, the ego ultimately leads to a divisive, paranoid exclusionary position, whether it be on an individual or on a collective level.