The 5 Clusters are Burning on Ignorance!
The Blessed Buddha once explained:
Friends, form is burning, feeling is burning, perception is burning, mental
constructions are burning, and consciousness itself is burning...
Burning with what?:
Burning with Greed.
Burning with Hate.
Burning with Ignorance.
Burning with rebirth.
Burning with ageing.
Burning with decay.
Burning with sickness & pain.
Burning with death.
I tell you!: Burning with Suffering!
Understanding this fully, friends, the learned Noble Disciple is disgusted
with all form, with all feeling, all perception, and with all constructions!
He is disgusted even with consciousness! The experience of that disgust,
brings disillusion and disenchantment. Through this disillusion, the mind is
completely released! When it is liberated, then this assurance appears:
"This mind is fully and irreversibly freed" and one instantly understands:
The rebirth process is now ended, this Noble Life have been completed,
done is what should be done, there is no state beyond this...
Comments:
The 5 clusters only take up and cling to objects, since they don't know
the 4 Noble Truths. If they knew: This object is also and only suffering,
they would neither take it up in the first place, nor ever cling to it...
Dukkha is caused by this "not knowing" = ignorance of the 4 Noble Truths!
More on these 5 Clusters of Clinging (Khandha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Any_Kind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Not_Yours.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Leash.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/House_on_Fire.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fingernail_of_Soil.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Acquisition_of_Fuel.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Burden_and_Prison.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Breaking_the_Bonds.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/khandha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya 22:61 III 71
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
The Burning Five!
