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Do you know what the five aggregates refer to in "the five aggregates are empty"?

“When Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva practiced the deep Prajna Paramita, he saw that the five aggregates were empty…” The Heart Sutra is full of the Heart Sutra, and is one of the most well-known Buddhist scriptures. At present, the 260-word version of the Heart Sutra translated by Master Xuanzang.So do you know what the "five aggregates" that "the five aggregates are empty" refer to?

The "aggregation" of the five aggregates is a transliteration of Sanskrit, and its meaning is accumulation or harmony.Buddhism believes that all things in the world are formed by the combination of the five aggregates, and a person's life is also formed by the combination of the five aggregates.

The five aggregates are the five types of form, feeling, thought, action, and consciousness.Among the five aggregates, except for the first form aggregate, which is a matter phenomenon that belongs to material nature, the other four aggregates are all spiritual phenomena in the five aggregates.

Early Buddhism focused on explaining life phenomena, and to explain life, it was necessary to involve the issue of what the physical and mental phenomena of people were.The answer given by Buddhism to this question is the Five Aggregation Theory.In other words, the five aggregates are actually Buddhist theory about what elements are composed of both the human body and its physical and mental phenomena.

The five aggregates are the five types of form, feeling, thought, action, and consciousness.Among the five aggregates, except for the first form aggregate, which is a matter phenomenon that belongs to material nature, the other four aggregates are all spiritual phenomena in the five aggregates.

1. Form aggregate, "form" refers to matter.The form aggregate refers to the aggregation of all objectively existing matters with shapes and qualitative hindrances, which is equivalent to what people call material phenomena now.The form aggregate specifically includes four major material factors such as earth, water, fire, and wind.What people often say about the four elements are empty is the four elements.

2. The feeling aggregate refers to the feelings or emotions generated by the senses touching external objects.

3. Thoughts, perceptions and representations obtained by analyzing the feelings generated by accepting external things.

4. Action aggregate, the will to action generated by the understanding of external things.

5. The consciousness aggregate mainly refers to the human consciousness function.For example, distinguishing from understanding things, etc.

The concept of the five aggregates is to show that there is no independent "I" or eternal and unchanging subject outside the five aggregates. The so-called "I" in the world is only the temporary harmony of the five aggregates. The "I" does not actually exist. The reason why people suffer is that they do not understand this truth and regard the five aggregates as real "I" or unchanging subjects to cling to it.

2024-02-05 18:06
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