The 5 Clusters of Clinging ... !!!

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There are these five Clusters of Clinging (Khandha):

The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, there are these five Clusters of Clinging. What five?

1: The Cluster of Clinging to Form...2: The Cluster of Clinging to Feeling...3: The Cluster of Clinging to Perception…4: The Cluster of Clinging to Construction…5: The Cluster of Clinging to Consciousness…

These are the 5 Clusters of Clinging! The Noble 8-fold Way should be developed for the direct experience of these five Clusters of Clinging, for the full understanding and elimination of them, and for their final overcoming, abandoning and leaving all behind…This Noble 8-fold Way is developed for the uprooting of allthe five Clusters of Clinging!

Explanation:The Cluster of Clinging to Form is internally as ‘own body’ & externally as appearing as ‘my world’ & ‘others body’…The Cluster of Clinging to Feeling is the obsession with pleasant feeling, painful feeling and neutral feeling…The Cluster of Clinging to Perception is the monomaniac fascination of the diverse objects of the six senses…The Cluster of Clinging to Construction is fixated passion for intending, planning, attending, thinking, worrying …The Cluster of Clinging to Consciousness is addiction to the seen, heard, smelt, tasted, touched, and cognized…Cluster of Clinging means an assemblage, bunch, clump, collection, group or knot of tightly adhering attachment!There is nothing here ‘outside’ or ‘apart’ from the clusters of clinging, neither internally nor externally…!!!For details on Clusters of Clinging: Khanda see:· Definition: The 5 Clusters of Clinging http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm · ~ as acquisition of fuel Acquisition of Fuel http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Acquisition_of_Fuel.htm · ~ as changing, painful & non-self Any Kind http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Any_Kind.htm · ~ as ownerless Not Yours http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Not_Yours.htm · ~ as binding The Leash http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/The_Leash.htm · ~ as transient Fingernail of Soil http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Fingernail_of_Soil.htm

Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V:60-1] section 45: The Way. 178: The 5 Cluster of Clinging...

 

 

 

 

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