Understanding The Five Aggregates (Skandhas) - Cliff Wallshein
Member's Talk by Cliff Wallshein (Won Bup Shin) (Mar/20/2016) @ Won Buddhism of Manhattan
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Buddha turned his mind inward and realized that all he or (we), could ever know about the world- was that which --we could be conscious of. This holds true even today, for no matter how powerful the instruments we create they are ultimately just extensions or augmentations to of our existing senses.
It's only the last 100 years we in the west broke the mind into 2 parts the unconscious that which is experiential yet unknown, and the information that is potentially available to know, or Known our “field of consciousness” or simply consciousness.
Buddha observed that for there to be Consciousness. There has to be consciousness ..of something.
He pointed out that there are only -2 basic objects we can be conscious of physical objects or the physical world; which is Sense consciousness, the source of which is stimulus from the nerves of the corresponding sense organs (Eye ear nose)and contact with their respective physical object and mental objects that is all thoughts…, ideas, memories visualizations, desires and so on arising in the mind.
The Body is considered the source of the physical sense organs it is called Rupa ( Pali for Form) and the Mind is the source of mental object or thoughts Nama (which in pali means “name”), Together these are known as the 6 sense bases. These are the building blocks from which we create our reality and our sense of self. The misconstruction (misconception) of which is called ignorance, in Buddhism this is considered to be the root cause of all suffering.
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Very insightful talk. Amazing to learn that such wisdom already existed 2500 years ago and its proven to be applicable today.
Bruh, I started learning Buddhism as a Westener around the time that adolescence set in and Roman Catholicism began to become a disagreeable establishment in my life. I've always been a reader and a learner, whatever that means. Buddhism has therefore been a periodic mainstay which I turn to periodically, and have done so for 3 decades. The word skandha and kandha popped into my mind tonight, alone, on the back porch of summer with a candle going and some other substances recently taken into my body that, once again, takes me into the rabbit hole. No awakening here, but gratitude that this dissimination of timeless teaching exists to allow the heart and mind to focus on these teachcings.
Wonderful. In my research of the Skandhas I came across this video and it has helped me tremendously.
Thank you so much Cliff Wallshein for explaining 5 aggregates in a very scientific ways. May it benefit all the sentient beings to be awaken from the deep sleep of ignorance.
I just want to say: I'm in love. In love with a special person, in love with myself, in love with life, in love with God, in love with all that I AM, in love with all that is. I love life. I've spent my whole life in a suicidal hell, and for the first time ever, that's all permanently shifting NOW.
Fantastic and far reaching. Very nice to be brought back to the simple foundations of the heart sutra. Concise, real world examples of the components and concepts that compose the human experience. Well done.
Excellent explanations! Let us always be aware of the impermanence of the Self.
Loved it!!!
fantastic!
Skanda = Mass. Mass has attraction just like gravity and it bends as a fabric . Emotions gives the perceptions (distorts).
mirin vid brah. liked
nice
That's me
A Hindu God Kartikeya is also called Skanda.
What is the speaker's name please?
@balakathir3744
2 жыл бұрын
Cliff Wallshein
This is when structured superficiality is sold as "Profound" to the living wandering dead minds.
Consciousness can exist without objects. Deep sleep.
@emacsjohn8357
3 жыл бұрын
But with mental objects
@WsprWndrr
2 жыл бұрын
Objects from memory are also objects.
Khanha! in Pali.
@michaelcostaam
5 жыл бұрын
Bounma Boulanger it's TANHA
@michaelcostaam
5 жыл бұрын
Bounma Boulanger. Or perhaps you meant kHANDA- aggregates
25oo yrs not 25000.Thanks
He has wonderful voice. It smelled of meat for a wolf, it sounded call for a feast. It featured a nice juicy chunnks/rump of a steak? It started the salivating of tongue. Where is the taste? When your tongue feasts on it?. It is all emptiness.
sound is terrible, sounds like static
@saltyd4
4 жыл бұрын
Cool
@thomasjansen9822
4 жыл бұрын
I can understand it okay
@kierenbonner8419
4 жыл бұрын
@@thomasjansen9822 didnt say i couldnt understand it, only that the sound is of poor quality. is it fun whiteknighting/gatekeeping? i see so many losers doing it, hows it working out?
@thomasjansen9822
4 жыл бұрын
@@kierenbonner8419 Good point, usually not very well. Have you heard that joke about the helper-type standing on a "helpee's" oxygen cord? That's me standing on the cord. Thank you for helping me to see the effect. On another note, do you happen to know the speaker's name?
A Bit too loud and excellerate .. missing the Soul and Heart .. sorry
Boats and submarines powered by electric eels. I just invented it . Yeah between eels and solar power, I could power my pirate ship where I will leave. I'm not kidding. The combined power here is clean useable power . I've seen very powerful totally electric engines on motorcycles . Harley Davidson Has one on the market 30,000.
Very nice speach, but Fucked up sound
Please explain the Trump trashing at 21:53 I didn't come here to hear your politic views. I voted for him and I am ok with that. Obviously you shouldn't be giving dharma talks yet. Very disappointed in you and Won Buddhism...will just go elsewhere
@BioxyTube
4 жыл бұрын
yeah just do that, go eslewhere
@redskyz483
4 жыл бұрын
@Dean Miller clever comment . 👍
@Octavus5
4 жыл бұрын
Angel1 I've noticed a lot of buddhist talks broach partisan politics as well. It's not a good look. Not very constructive.
@blancemoore
7 ай бұрын
Although it was 4 years ago…. You requested an explanation. You framed it as “Trump trashing”. The discussion was about how our belief systems manifest in social space/in the world. Did you take offense at the speaker describing these forces as resulting in extreme ideology? He’s talking about blind spots and the subtle games our minds play. That’s the point. Throughout history, the ego ultimately leads to a divisive, paranoid exclusionary position, whether it be on an individual or on a collective level.