Topic: Lecture number 2 (two)
Five Aggregates
Author: MINH DANG QUANG
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(By version, published in 1993)
Editing and translating into English, this student: LE DUC HUYEN
Translator
(Pages 22-37)
I. Five aggregates or five-warm
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The five aggregates are also read as: "five warms", which are the five dharmas in the universe. Every single thing in this world, whether it has a form, or even has no form, belongs to the details of the five aggregates. Those five dharmas are: ☑
- 1. Form-aggregates (forms, bodies)
- 2. Life-aggregates (feelings like to accept)
- 3. The aggregate of perception (thought or imagination);
- 4. Action-aggregates (acts, ie jobs);
- 5. Consciousness-aggregates (intellectual distinction)
- Refer: Skandha; => The five aggregates or heaps of clinging are:
1. form (or material image, impression) (rupa)
2. sensations (or feelings, received from form) (vedana)
3. perceptions (samjna)
4. a mental activity or formations (sankhara)
5. consciousness (vijnana).[5][6][7]
The word "aggregate" is concise, and contains groups, aggregates, and blocks as big as treasures.

The word "warm" is a cover, a vast body that covers (the same meaning as the word aggregate).
The five aggregates or five warms come out: are dependent on each other, by this and that dharma. Like earth, water, fire, wind: hot and cold, fusion that gives birth to feelings. The feeling is the warmth of the four elements, so it is called warm feeling, and the four elements are: warm color. Life warm blend, with the warm color of the four elements, that birth: warm idea. Thought of warm blend, with warm color, warm feeling, but born: warm consciousness. So the five warms are born of each other, because warm is the arising between this and that. ☑
The Five Warms are the common Truth of the universe and all things, the birth and transformation, the result of the Dharmas.
There is nothing but the five-warm, for it is the birth of all things, just as there is water, there is flour, which is then made into bread.; Warm or aggregate this is bread, which is also water and flour. Or rather, "birth, accomplishment", that is: there is flour, there is water, there is bread. Water, flour, bread, are all in the birth, the accomplishment. Therefore, it is said that the five aggregates or five warms are the five dharmas in the world of the universe and all things. Because everywhere in the world, the universe and all things, everywhere is in a large, concise, grouped, aggregated, concealed body: covering everything! ☑
II. Condition of form-aggregates
The aggregate of form means everything that has form in the world, such as: earth, water, fire, wind, globe, all things, living beings, all kinds of things...There is earth, water, fire, and wind, and there is a globe. So want to know where the globe comes from? Where do earth, water, fire, and wind come from? We should consider the cause and effect of the aggregates of form! ☑
____ Where does the aggregate of form come from?
____ Form-aggregates inherent in space, emptiness are the irregular changes of the globe, when it floats, when it collapses* (see the Cosmic view again). The aggregate of form has no cause and effect, because it is something that has no head and no tail, so naturally!; (It can also be said that the earth was formerly a cause, and after its dissolution, it was a condition. There are conditions that give birth to form-aggregates, which is the present earth globe.). Having the aggregate of form is having the globe, earth, water, fire, and wind, which is the origin of all things (form aggregates).
III. Form-aggregates to life-aggregates
Soil and water are inherently viable. Over time, the soil produces resin like a white thread, is sweat, and after a long time turns into roots, grass (and animals). Water born water hyacinth, seaweed, thick, long also turn into roots, grass (and animals). Grass and trees already have a pretty good life, this living knowledge is called feeling...; (The meaning of the word feeling is the times of self-induction or being touched, receiving feelings of other breeds.). Small trees feel very weak, big trees live for many years, feel old, like we see big trees or have god-life [24]. Many people think they are ghosts or gods. Due to long life: concise (life-aggregates). ☑
IV. Life-aggregates to perception-aggregates
Trees live for many years of life-feeling old that practice times imagining. The imaginary mass makes the soul weak (feeling stronger). The soul already has should be incarnated with a very strong thought that depicts animals, becoming beasts. Animals have thoughts, or imaginations and life-long lives.; That thought, the older it gets, the more wisdom it contains. It had a real soul. At this point, the thought has grown old thanks to the long-term containment of the group (perception-aggregation).
V. Thought-aggregates to act-aggregates
Animals live for many years thinking old, but practice times behavior. The act of making the foolish soul weak (imagining), gradually becoming wise and firm, the soul has become wise and firm, so it is conceived by the aggregates of formations, practicing the human form. People who live together in the world, through their actions that are skillful and wise, gradually evolve: surpassing! The longer life is, the more stable the behavior through experience, the wiser the soul. It is the behavior that has reached the highest level, the culmination, thanks to many lifetimes, full collection (action-aggregates). ☑
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Verses: Animal Imagination
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| monkey |
- 1. Thoughts come from all animals,
- Wild forests gather and live in groups
- Where the old forest was a cave,
- Covered by grass and trees, golden sunshine: shine!
- 2. Love them for their little memory,
- Eyes to distinguish dream and smile.
- Which is monkey, ape, orangutan,
- The pig put its nose, and smelled the smell: recognize it!
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| chicken |
- 3. The mountain chicken flies back and forth,
- The peacock spreads its left wing, showing off its feathers.
- Color! brilliant rainbow,
- The stream rings, the water flows, the dragon: rain!;
- 4. He has just returned to visit the old mountain,
- Mountains overlap: medium, low, high.
Yellow deer, bewildered somewhere,
The cat touched with, like hello: visit!
- 5. Its eyes look deep and cunning,
- "If the ant: authority is alive.
- Mankind's law is wide: how many.
- The elephant carries a heavy load, sighs: relief!
- 6. Without the owner, shrimp tails: chickens grow?
- The buffalo plows hard and suffers.
- 7. Waving the tail of a foolish horse: waving,
- Tears overflowed to see: but pity.
- Stairs, high and low, fields,
- Eagle with wings, in the direction: which sky?;
- 8. They also have a desire to live,
- Lovebirds swim lightly: rivers, ponds, lakes.
- The cow eats the grass naively,
- Carrying the body of an animal, ambiguous*: is it stupid?
- 9. The turtle is the root cultivator for many lifetimes!
- Carrying the body is an animal: karma goes forward.
- Gradual enlightenment: repay,
- The sacred sword returns, sustaining mountains and rivers!
- 10. Forerunners, juniors, broad-minded,
- People: consciousness, belief, right faith.
- All the animals cried out: shut up?
- Suffering pain, begging: human!
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Struggling for survival, lazy to think,
Humans, like monkeys: where out?
Go back in time to investigate,
Does anyone have proof, turns out to be a human!
12. It is a hypothesis: support your evil heart,
Compare people with different mindsets!
Human beings have compassion,
The same is charity, compare: true, more.
- 13. Who is enlightened the source of understanding, knowing,
- Between the two sides, distinguish the solution.
- Sincere repentance: what sin?
- The animal is thought, despite disagreement!
- 14. I sincerely look up to the Buddha land,
- Avalokitesvara saves suffering: hearing loss.
- Amitabha Buddha demonstrated,
- Super birth pure land: ... because I have unjustly exploited!
- Namo Amitabha Buddha!
- Translator - THICH TAM DANG
VI. The action-aggregate to consciousness-aggregates;
People live many years old, the behavior has aged experience that birth wisdom. The intellectual aptitude, which is the old knowing, makes the soul evolve even more to the level of Super-human (who is superior to the human race), also called Heaven. From the ordinary life to the superman class, is to go through a long way of knowledge, that is, the knowing to distinguish, the knowing to distinguish is not only obtained in a lifetime. Through thousands of thousands of millions of kalpas, that new knowledge becomes more and more old, solidly gathered into a huge block like a treasure (consciousness-aggregation). ☑
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VII.- Consciousness Aggregates to Enlightenment:
Heaven lives a long time, intellectual: intelligent and lucid, reaching enlightenment, is enlightenment where escape from mundane. True mind without hope, enlightened nature, not deluded is often called Buddha. ☑
The Buddha is the one who is all-enlightened, all-righteous, all-good-willed, all-beautiful, all-powerful, all-wise, all-virtuous, and all-human. After completing the task of teaching (passing the class of God) it is time to rest, succeed, and complete. ✔☑
VIII. Five Aggregates to Five Paths
The new child's body in the womb is the aggregate of form.
At birth is the aggregate of life.
Reaching the age of six is the idea.
When twelve years old, the behavior.
About thirty years old is awake.
(Forty-eight years old is enlightenment).
Hell is the four elements, or body in the womb, has form. (shape)
A hungry ghost is a plant, or a newborn child, with the aggregate of life-span.
Animals are all kinds of animals, or six-year-old children, with the aggregate of perception. (tri giác; sense)
Humanity is a person, or a small person, with an action.
The Devas are gods, or adults, with consciousness.
Reference: Inferred: an adult citizen, 18 years of age or older, is called "awake". Buddha or old man, forty-eight years old, enlightened. ).
a.- Hell: Scene of a child, sitting in his mother's womb, enveloping the fetus like the sheath of a seed, the skin of the mother's womb like the earth. In it, thanks to the warmth, the image takes shape.; Lúc ban đầu mê như người ngủ, vốn chưa có cái biết, về sau bởi có sự xao động bên ngoài là pháp-hành, mới sanh thức-biết lần lần.; At first, like a sleeping person, who has no knowledge, then because of external disturbances, which is the practice of dharma, new consciousness arises.; Cái thức mới ấy là thọ cảm, có thọ cảm mới chun ra; cũng như kẻ ngộp nhô tìm ánh sáng, vượt bỏ chốn vô minh si mê (địa ngục).; The new consciousness is feeling, there is new feeling out; as well as those suffocating in search of light, overcoming the place of ignorance and delusion (hell).
b.- Ngạ quỉ; Ghoul: Đứa trẻ sanh ra chỉ biết đòi ăn, đòi bú, cũng như cỏ mọc ra, là chỉ biết sự đói khát, đòi ăn, uống nước, gốc tham lam.; When a child is born, he only knows how to eat and drink, just like grass grows, he only knows hunger and thirst, asking for food and water, and the root of greed. (ngạ quỉ; goul).
c.- Súc Sanh; Animals: Trẻ con sáu tuổi vọc đất chơi bùn, ưa lùm thích bụi khác nào con vật; lại thêm nghịch ngợm phá phách, hung dữ, ham gây, gốc sân giận (súc sanh).; Six-year-old children play in the dirt and play in the mud, preferring dust like animals; more naughty, destructive, aggressive, greedy to cause, root anger (animals).
Ba hạng này ở trong cái ác mà không tự biết, sống bằng cách hại kẻ khác, chung quanh, mà vẫn không hay.; These three classes are in evil without knowing it themselves, living by harming others, around, and still not knowing.; Như cây cỏ sanh ra bởi đất, nước, rồi lại ăn đất, nước mà sống, khác nào như đứa con sống bằng thân mẹ, ăn máu thịt mẹ?; Like a plant born from the earth and water, and then eats the soil and water to live, how is it like a child who lives by the mother's body and eats the mother's flesh and blood?; Đứa trẻ lấy máu thịt mẹ làm thân (địa ngục) sanh ra rồi lại còn bú là ăn máu thịt mẹ nữa, thêm sự thèm đòi như ma đói (ngạ quỉ).; The child who takes the mother's blood and flesh as a body (hell) is born and then sucks again, eats the mother's blood and flesh, adding cravings like a hungry ghost (ghoul). ☑
Lớn lên sáu tuổi hết giết mẹ, lại đến tuổi đùa nghịch, phá phách, gây gổ khổ hại cha, ông (súc sanh).; When I was six years old, I stopped killing my mother, I came to the age of playing, destroying, causing trouble to harm my father and grandfather (animals) ☑
Ấy bởi chỉ có sắc thân như địa ngục, thọ cảm như ngạ quỉ, tư tưởng như súc sanh thôi! Nào ta có nên chấp trách kẻ chưa có cái biết đầy đủ ấy, vì theo từng lớp tiến hóa, ai ai cũng vậy. Chính ta, chúng ta mỗi người đã phải trải qua ba lớp ác ấy rồi: ta đã ở trong cảnh mê ngộp của địa ngục thai bào (sắc) mà tiến đến cõi đói khát tìm đòi của ngạ quỉ (thọ), rồi vượt lên đến lớp nghịch ngợm phá phách của súc sanh (tưởng). Nhưng lần lượt ta sẽ đến với cái thiện của lớp người (hành). Trời (thức) mà tha thứ cùng giúp đỡ cho bao kẻ khác. Người giúp ta, ta giúp lại kẻ khác, ai cũng sanh nơi cha mẹ gốc vốn, và phải nương theo chỗ sanh gốc vốn ấy một lúc đầu. Về sau ta mới biết tự lo cho ta và đền ơn cha mẹ, là ta giúp đỡ nuôi dạy lại kẻ khác.
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