RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Impermanence, Dukkha, Mahayana
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Bhuddism is to attain nirvana, the final and highest good. Suffering another way of emphasizing samsara. Bhuddism"s 5 aggregates (groups): together they constitute me the individual being. This is an answer to anatman, no self. These 5 aggregates are what we experience as self. What ever we feel is at least in one of these. There is no self that defines us but the 5 aggregates together. It is delusional to think that there is beyond this. Mental activities (in the sense of feelings: much of it is in direct response to physical stimuli. Classification/categorization: a mental activity in higher order than feelings, gives you recognition, gives you knowledge about the world. I see an apple, i want to eat the apple, and i want to steal etcetc. Self-consciousness: an awareness of our selves as conscious beings. Notion of connectedness: them being together, connect you, nothing besides them. The mechanism that makes us function is causality, cause and effect.
