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Notes about Buddhism

Five Skandhas

Extracted from the excellent English(!) version of the 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.

  1. form
    matter, body or “material form” of a being or any existence
  2. sensation
    sensory experience of an object. It is either pleasant, unpleasant or neutral.
  3. perception
    sensory and mental process that registers, recognizes and labels (for instance, the shape of a tree, color green, emotion of fear)
  4. mental formations
    types of mental imprints and conditioning triggered by an object. Includes any process that makes a person initiate action or act.
  5. 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)

  1. sensual pleasure
  2. mental formations → leads to action, to the wish to change something
  3. ignorance → leads to karmic formation

Four Jhanas

Sixteen Ways of Breathing

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