====== Notes about Buddhism ======

===== Five Skandhas =====

Extracted from the excellent English(!) version of the **[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandha|Wikipedia article]]**.

The five skandhas refes to the five aggregates of clinging, the five material and mental factors that take part in the rise of craving and clinging.


  - **form** \\ matter, body or "material form" of a being or any existence
  - **sensation** \\ sensory experience of an object. It is either pleasant, unpleasant or neutral.
  - **perception** \\ sensory and mental process that registers, recognizes and labels (for instance, the shape of a tree, color green, emotion of fear)
  - **mental formations** \\ types of mental imprints and conditioning triggered by an object. Includes any process that makes a person initiate action or act.
  - **conciousness** \\ awareness of an object and discrimination of its components and aspects.

/*
  ? form
  : matter, body or "material form" of a being or any existence
  ? sensation
  : sensory experience of an object. It is either pleasant, unpleasant or neutral.
  ? perception
  : sensory and mental process that registers, recognizes and labels (for instance, the shape of a tree, color green, emotion of fear)
  ? mental formations:
  : all types of mental imprints and conditioning triggered by an object. Includes any process that makes a person initiate action or act.
  ? conciousness
  : Awareness of an object and discrimination of its components and aspects.
*/

===== Three Factors preventing us from being at rest =====

(TPA, course "Inner clarity through meditation", Nov. 2021)

  - sensual pleasure
  - mental formations -> leads to action, to the wish to change something
  - ignorance -> leads to karmic formation

===== Four Jhanas =====

===== Sixteen Ways of Breathing =====
===== Courses =====

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===== Glossary =====

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