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Old 25-01-2020, 05:48 AM
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The Five Aggregates

The delusional experiences of one identified with the brains mental processes and ones conditioning. What one not enlightened and not liberated does and experiences.

1. Sensory recognition of something in the physical world that includes a recognition based on memory, stored conceptual interpretation. We have no direct experience as we experience stuff "out there" through the filter of our manufactured person and condiitoning.

2. Mental feelings about what we are perceiving, like, dislike, indifference. Reacting in other words. Again based on mental conditioning.

3. Physical reactions, brain releasing various chemicals that match our mental feelings resulting in emotional responses we can physically perceive. Pleasure, anger, fear etc. Physical bodily reactions as well.

4. Looping, thought person based interpretations feeding into the other aggregates to keep them processing. Extending time of the delusional experience, giving it further delusional reality.

5. Consciousness identifies with, recognizes, the first four aggregates as self, all the above linked into our continuing story or person.

Something similar here as taught by a Zen Teacher.

https://tricycle.org/magazine/five-aggregates/
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