The Burning Five!
samahita
Veteran
Friends:
The 5 Clusters of Clinging 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, with all perception, and with all constructions!
He is disgusted even with consciousness itself! The experience of this disgust,
produces disillusion and disenchantment. Through this disillusion, the mind is
completely released from all habituated attachment, and tenacious clinging!
When it is thus entirely liberated, then this assurance appears to the Noble:
"This mind is fully and irreversibly freed" and one instantly understands:
The rebirth process is now finally ended, this Noble Life have been completed,
done is what should be done, there is no state of being beyond this one...
Comments:
The 5 clusters of clinging only take up and cling to the 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 thus 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 Nikaya 22:61 III 71
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
The Burning Five!
The 5 Clusters of Clinging are Burning on Ignorance!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Burning_Five.htm
Comments
with all form, with all feeling, with all perception, and with all constructions!
He is disgusted even with consciousness itself! The experience of this disgust,
produces disillusion and disenchantment.
Bliss is one of seven factors of enlightenment. Disgust is not.
I think it's referencing nibbida, so "dispassion" might be better than "disgust".
See here: http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=5562
Also see here, The Fire Sermon: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn35/sn35.028.nymo.html
This sounds better to me. It’s not disgust or rejection, it’s liberation.
When you're disillusioned with something you don't need or want it any more.
But when you hate it, you're not free from it.
Nibbida isn't hate. Have another look at the Dhamma Wheel thread I referenced above:
It stems from the verb 'nibbindati' which literally means 'to be satiated', in the sense 'to have enough of'.
The fact that an adult has enough of playing with toys doesn't mean that he feels any aversion towards toys. They just don't interest him any more as a kind of play.
Similarly one who develops 'nibbidaa' doesn't have interest in sensual pleasures, seeing things as they are.
I read that and thought it was good.
My last post wasn’t meant to disagree.
OK. The language used in some of the older sutta translations can be a bit Old Testament.
Yea, verily.
Thus Spake the Buddha.