Understanding the Five Aggregates

During this talk, Peter reviews another way mindfulness practice supports Awakening, contemplating the Five Aggregates of Clinging, part of the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness.  The Five Aggregates represent a conceptual structure that helps understanding of Anatta, the absence of an enduring, autonomous self.  Concrete, a crucial structural component in almost any building or road, is composed of cement, gravel, sand and water, which aggregate and solidify into a form–the human personality is also aggregated from file elements, and they can be investigated with sufficient training in mindfulness.  When we are mindful of these elements as aggregates, the ability to “deconstruct” the self is nurtured. Here are the notes prepared for this talk:  REVIEWING THE FIVE AGGREGATES OF CLINGING