From suffering to enlightenment
It is a sticking to a 5 rapacious aggregates (P., pacupadanakkhandha) that is a problem with sufferingno other. These aggregates, that have been a psychophysical physique of a birth, have been suffering. Think of it like this, a Five Aggregates = pang or duhkha. This is just a way a Buddha sees it.
"And what , bhikkhus, is a eminent truth of suffering? it should be said: a 5 aggregates theme to sticking (pacupadanakkhandha); that is, a form total theme to sticking [all a way to] a alertness total theme to clinging. This is called a eminent truth of suffering" (S. v. 425).
By sticking to these aggregates pang arises for us. But by transcending them comes a cessation of pang since a aggregates equal suffering.
During a process of transcending a 5 rapacious aggregates consisting of form, sensation, perception, volitional formations, as well as consciousness, you should not regard any total as a loyal self. Each aggregate, according to a Buddha, should be treated thusly: This is not mine, this am I not, this is not my self/att.
For a little complicated Buddhists this might come as a shock insofar as Buddhism boils down to being this simple. But then what is pang if not life gifted through a unsound temporal physique that we've been sticking to since a parents sperm as well as egg united? Enlightenment, therefore, has to be saying as well as yoking with what is adequate; that transcends a aggregates; that is a loyal self.
"So long, Bhikkhus, as I did not directly know as they really have been a gratification, a danger, as well as a shun in a box of these 5 aggregates theme to clinging, I did not claim to have awakened to a unrivalled perfect note in this world with the devas, Mara, as well as Brahma, in this era with the ascetics as well as brahmins, the devas as well as humans" (S. iii. 29).
