The five aggregates are color aggregate, feeling aggregate, perception aggregate, action aggregate and consciousness aggregate. Among the five aggregates, except for the first form aggregate, which is a material phenomenon, the other four aggregates are all spiritual phenomena within the five aggregates.

The five aggregates are actually the Buddhist theory about the elements that make up the human body and its physical and mental phenomena. The "Yun" of the five aggregates is the transliteration of Sanskrit, and its meaning is accumulation or combination. Buddhism believes that everything in the world is composed of the five aggregates, and a person's life is also composed of the five aggregates.

[Color]--Color--Matter

[Feeling]--Feeling

[Thinking]--Thoughts, mental states

[Consequences]--Spiritual activities

[Consciousness]--The King of Heart

The five aggregates constitute the self of life. There are many lives in the world. Buddhism These lives are divided into two types: heartless life and sentient life.

Ruthless life: There are physiological phenomena, no mental activities, and no ego. It is called a heartless life. Plants, cells in our bodies, etc. are all heartless lives.

Sentient life: It has physical activities and mental activities, and is attached to me and loves the self that it is attached to. Only this kind of sentient life is qualified to be called a sentient being.

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Interrelationships among the five aggregates

The color aggregates among the five aggregates are divided into inner color and outer color, which are root and state ( dust).

The dust is the environment we know, and the root is what our consciousness relies on to know the external environment. The psychology of contact between the mind and the environment is called contact. What can know the external environment at the time of contact is consciousness. After the mind and environment come into contact, feelings, thoughts, and actions will arise continuously.

After that, the three kinds of feelings - pain, pleasure, and equanimity - arise. At the same time, the mind constructs and draws various forms. Giving them various names is what is called thinking.

After establishing the famous sayings and adding troubles, good and evil thoughts will arise, and even the body, speech and mind will be used to create karma. These are the five aggregates - form, feeling, thought, action and consciousness. relationship between. Our life is such a continuous activity.

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