Knowing the 5
core aspects of the 5 Clusters:
The Blessed Buddha once explained:
Friends, the uninstructed, uneducated, and
ordinary person neither understands
the origin as it really is, nor does he understand the ceasing, nor the
satisfaction,
nor the danger, nor the escape from these five clusters of clinging:
Form, Feeling,
Perception, Mental Constructions, and Consciousness!
But, friends, the instructed Noble Disciple understands the origin as it really
is,
including the ceasing, the satisfaction, the danger, and the escape in the case
of
form, feeling, perception, mental constructions, & consciousness!
How are these 5 aspects of the 5
clusters of clinging to be understood?
The origin of form is
nutriment! Ceasing of nutriment
is ceasing of form!
The satisfaction in
form is the pleasure, fun, and joy derived from
form.
The danger in form is the impermanent and
decaying
nature of all form.
The escape from
form is the overcoming of all desire & lust for any form.
[Nutriment
is here defined as: Food, contact, intention and consciousness!]
The
origin of feeling, perception and construction is this sense contact.
The ceasing of
feeling, perception and construction is ceasing of contact.
The satisfaction
in feeling, perception & construction is the
pleasure, and
joy derived from feeling, perception and mental construction.
The danger in feeling, perception and mental construction is the inherent
and inevitable impermanence & therefore
immanent dissatisfaction with
any feeling, any perception and any mental
construction whatsoever!
The escape from feeling, perception and construction is the overcoming
of all desire and lust for all feeling, perception and mental
construction!
The
initial origin of consciousness is
mental construction. The
ceasing of
consciousness is the
ceasing of
mental construction. The
satisfaction in
consciousness is the pleasure and joy derived from consciousness.
The danger within consciousness is this
impermanence, nature to change,
and thus dismal characteristic of any form and event of consciousness!
The escape from
all consciousness is the overcoming & elimination of all
desire and lust for any form of consciousness. In this way are these 5
aspects of the 5 clusters of clinging to be fully
understood! It is only in
this way, that the instructed Noble Disciple indeed really understands,
what should be
understood...
More on the 5 Clusters of Clinging
(Khanda):
House_on_Fire
The 5 Clusters of Clinging,
The Leash,
Fingernail of
Soil,
Certain_Rightness
~ acquisition of
Acquisition
of Fuel,
What are the 5 Clusters of Clinging,
~ as changing, painful & non-self
Any Kind,
Like_Foam,
The_Burning_Five,
~ as ownerless
Not
Yours, Clustered_Truths,
Stilling_of_Clinging,
khandha,
~ as categories
Things_that_can_be_clung_to,
Not_Who_but_What,
~ as suffering
Clustered_Truths,
Breaking_the_Bonds,
Burden_and_Prison,
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya 22:74 III 822
http://store.pariyatti.org/Connected-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_1379.html
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/sn/index.html
