RELG 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Thela, Noble Eightfold Path, Four Noble Truths
14 Sep 2016
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Arya Satya/Ariya Sacca!
duhka: suffering of suffering!
# •# There is a division between physical pain and mental pain
# •# Birth is described as painful-being born and reborn are seen as painful
processes
•viparinama-duhkha: suffering due to change- you may be in a good
situation but that will end due to change, this change bringing about
suffering (everything changes e.g the planet, the political climate, the
weather and each of us is going through a process of constant renewal
and change-)
# •# There is nothing that we can count on to remain permanent, therefore,
in that sense, life is pretty dissatisfactory
# •# "The five bundles of grasping fuel are painful""
•samskara-duhkha: suffering as formations-life is made up of
composite parts
# •# The Buddha searched within himself something to be stable and
lasting, a core unchaining identity (what makes me who I really am) but
he could not find anything."
# •# There is no part of us that remains unchanging"
# •# Instead, he only found aspect about himself that are subject to
continuous change-he groups them into 5 bundles
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5 Aggregates (Skandha/Khandha)!
factos of personality/psycho-physical constituents bundles of grasping-fuel
(that which fuels your grasping-as wood is to a flame, as our body is to our
grasping of ourselves)"!
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1. Material form (rupa)- The only aggregate to have a physical form. It is
everything to do with that which is composed of the elements e.g
earth, water, fire and wind-they have to do with solidity, heat and
motion
2. Feelings and Sensations (vedana)- classified into three, positive,
negative and neutral. Sensations that can be either physical or mental
(happiness, unhappiness and indifference)
3. Perceptions/Cognition (samjna/sanna)-A process of mental
labelling, the level of processing sensory data. E.g. seeing an animal
with black and white stripes, seeing it on four legs, hearing particular
sounds it makes and giving it the name of Zebra. It is the mental act
of"disguising"the qualities of an object.
4. Constructing Activities (samskara/sankhara)- It is a number of
processes that initiate action. Buddhism believes that we have deep
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