Five
x Five Crucial Core Buddhist
Categories:
There are five Mental
Abilities:
1:
Faith,
2:
Energy,
3:
Awareness,
4: Concentration & 5:
Understanding.
There are five Rules of
Training:
1:
No Killing, 2: No Stealing, 3: No Lying, 4:
No Sexual Abuse, 5; No Alcohol or Drugs.
There are five
Clusters of Clinging
to:
1:
Form, 2: Feeling, 3: Perception, 4: Construction & 5: Consciousness.
There are five
Mental Hindrances:
1:
Sense-Desire, 2: Anger,3: Lethargy & Laziness, 4:
Regret & Restlessness, 5: Doubt & Uncertainty.
There are five
Destinations right after
Death:
1: Hell, 2: Animal Womb, 3: Hungry Ghost,
4: Human Being or 5: Deity.
More on these core
concepts enabling comprehension:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Five_Abilities_Summary.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Refuges_and_Precepts.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Mental_Hindrances.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Five_Destinations.htm
Source: The Exhaustive Speeches by the
Buddha. Digha Nikaya 33
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25103
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/digha/index.html
Five x Five!
