Friends:
What are the 5 Primary Categories of Being?
I: There is the Cluster of Clinging to Material Form (Rūpa):
Form or materiality is composed of these 4 Primary
Elements:
1: Solidity based microscopically on the force of extension.
2: Fluidity based microscopically on the force of cohesion.
3: Heat based microscopically on the property of vibration.
4: Motion based microscopically on the property of energy.
From these 4 can be derived all other formed phenomena...
Form (Rūpa) in Buddhism is a quality, but not a substance...
Whatever there are of formed things, whether past, present
or future, internal or external, fine or gross, high or low,
far or near, all these belong to this form group. Desire, lust
craving and clinging to that, is the cluster of clinging to form!
II: There is the Cluster of Clinging to Mental Feeling (Vedanā):
There are these five kinds of Feeling:
1: Bodily pleasant feeling and 2: Bodily painful feeling.
3: Mentally glad feeling and 4: Mentally sad feeling. And finally:
5: Indifferent feeling = Neither painful, pleasant, sad, nor glad.
Feeling is born as effect of eye contact, or ear contact, or nose
contact, or tongue contact, or body contact, or mental contact...
Whatever there is of feeling, whether past, present or future,
internal or external, fine or gross, high or low, far or near, all
that belongs to this feeling group. Desire, lust, craving for, and
clinging to these reactions, is the cluster of clinging to feeling!
III: There is the Cluster of Clinging to Mental Perception (Saññā):
There are these six kinds of Perception:
1: Visual perception of form and colour. 2: Auditory perception of
sound.
3: Olfactory perception of smell. 4: Gustatory perception of taste.
5: Tactile perception of touch. 6: Mental perception of ideas and
states.
Whatever there is of perception, whether past, present or future,
internal or external, fine or gross, high or low, far or near, all
that
belongs to this perception group. Desire, lust, craving for and
clinging to
these perceived experiences, is the cluster of clinging to
perception!
IV: There is the Cluster of Clinging to Mental Construction
(Sankhāra):
There are six kinds of mental construction dealing with visual
objects,
or hearable objects, or smellable, or tastable, or touchable objects,
or
thinkable objects. Whatever there is of mental construction, whether
past,
present or future, internal or external, fine or gross, high or low,
far or
near, all that belongs to this mental construction group. Desire,
craving for
and clinging to these objectives, is the cluster of clinging to
construction!
Wanting to see some special form is the mental construction of
intention...
V: There is the Cluster of Clinging
to Consciousness (Viññāna):
There are six kinds of consciousness:
1: The Visual Consciousness of seeing. 2: The Auditory Consciousness
of hearing.
3: Olfactory Consciousness of smelling. 4: Gustatory Consciousness of
tasting.
5: Tactile Consciousness of touching. 6: The Mental Consciousness of
thinking.
Whatever there is of consciousness, whether past, present or future,
internal
or external, fine or gross, high or low, far or near, all that belongs
to this very
consciousness group. Desire, craving for and clinging to this aware
recognition,
is the cluster of clinging to consciousness!
The Blessed Buddha said:
Recluses and priests, who knows the causation, the ceasing, and the
way leading
to the ceasing of these five clusters of clinging, who are practicing
for disgust
towards these, for their fading away and dissolution, they are
practicing well!
They are later released and well liberated through this very
non-clinging...
Those who are well liberated are consummate ones, completed ones...
There is no way of describing such utterly perfected ones...
There is nothing
in this or any Universe apart from these 5 Clusters of Clinging...
More on these 5 Clusters of Clinging (Khandha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Any_Kind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Not_Yours.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Leash.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Like_Foam.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/House_on_Fire.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fingernail_of_Soil.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Acquisition_of_Fuel.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Burning_Five.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Burden_and_Prison.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Breaking_the_Bonds.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stilling_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/khandha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
If Clinging: How can one ever be Free?
If Not Free: How can one ever be Happy?
Source: The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya XXII
(56); [III 59-61]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 A Vast Ocean of
True Dhamma Teaching!
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/index.html#Khandha
On these Clusters!
Have
a
nice,
noble
&
relinquished
day!
Friendship is the
Greatest! 
Bhikkhu Samāhita
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Sri Lanka
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