What a delight to hear this talk.....notwithstanding just heard teaching not to form any opinions!
@PctPacer9 жыл бұрын
Great job of presenting a clear and concise overview of the Skandhas.
@pbziegler2 жыл бұрын
Nice job explaining what has always been a challenging topic. The reality of no solid self is easier to understand than the stages of the 5 skandas. So thanks for this
@paldavik692710 жыл бұрын
Your presentation was clear and comprehensive. Thank you very much!
@phyzix_phyzix3 жыл бұрын
Here's another perspective. The skhandas are properties of experience. Reality is just moments of experience. Moments of hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, touching, and thinking. Each of these experiences have 5 properties. The 5 skhandas.
@emacsjohn83573 жыл бұрын
Nice
@Alephu59 жыл бұрын
Thanks Paul, a great explanation.
@theabundancemovement96389 жыл бұрын
I love this guy! The first moment I knew...but scepticism demanded I see it through. It could just be the oddballness of this fine and grubilly dapper gentleman. Lest to no avail, the proof was indeed, in the pudding. And what a pudding this video is, a heap or pile of puddings upon puddings! I signed in specifically to say I appreciate what you got going on here, in your channel, an excellent character to host such things and non things alike. When my production company (My very own meditation on something from nothing) makes some impact I will happily endorse you in anyway I can.
@LadyTrecca9 жыл бұрын
Nice video, that picture at the end though creeped me out lol
@stephendelacruzone9 жыл бұрын
Not bad overview of the skandhas. The skandhas are the most mystical and esoteric teaching I've ever encountered in the eastern religions, especially in Buddhism. #Skandhas #Zen
@smlanka4u4 жыл бұрын
Your teacher's teacher is funny.. His smile made me smile too. If we can understand the Five Skandhas (The Five Aggregates Of Clinging (upadana-skandha)) then we can learn how our happiness and unhappiness work.
@SonicPhonic4 жыл бұрын
If a tree falls in the forest, it is heard by many plants, animals, insects and microorganisms.
@trevordayndallas9847 Жыл бұрын
You okay? Sounds like there’s some pretty serious shit going on next door. Great Video! Easier to follow than most. Thank you!
@PaulCharlesGriffin11 жыл бұрын
Hi Marco Krop, thanks for your comment! I appreciate it.
@kacatley92583 жыл бұрын
Outstanding Paul clap clap!
@wordscapes56907 ай бұрын
Hmmm. Never thought about it from this analytical point of view. It has always been something I just “do” by way of the suttas. Very interesting. Thank you. Namo Buddhaya. PS Have you read Bikkhu Bodhi’s wonderful translations of the Pali Canon?
@FredRosa8 жыл бұрын
did they put out that fire or what ? xD Thanks for this teaching Paul.
@coreywu48248 жыл бұрын
very well explained !! Thank you
@snippee143810 жыл бұрын
detailed and insightful and so helpful thank you
@MrOktony4 жыл бұрын
Many thanks
@chelles_path8 жыл бұрын
This clarified so many questions I had. Great video, thank you :)
@clairedivoire56438 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much
@kevinstoodley759810 жыл бұрын
thank you!!
@smlanka4u4 жыл бұрын
Well Explained..
@GregoryWonderwheel Жыл бұрын
The skandhas are the anatomy of awareness. In the same way that the body is described as having muscle, skeletal, nervous, circulatory, etc. systems, the mind has 5 systems, called the 5 skandhas. FYI, the translation as "heap" or "aggregate" is a misnomer. That is an implied connotation not a translation. The word "skandha" refers the shoulder where the arm branches from the torso or to the joint where the crotch of the branch stems forth from the tree. The 5 skandhas are the 5 shoulders where the five arms of awareness extend from the torso of the One Mind of True Suchness. Using the common denominator of "ception" (from Latin capere, to take;) as the root, I like to say that the 5 skandhas are inception, reception, perception, conception, and deception. (I disagree with calling the 3rd skandha "conception" because concept is too complex for the 3rd skandha and the coplexity of conception, i.e., mental formation, develops at the 4th skandha.) The inherently deceptive function and structure of consciousness is the duality of the polarized bifurcation of self-consciousness. The practice of Buddha Dharma is to transform the deception of consciousness into the prajna/wisdom of awareness. The 8 consciousnesses are transformed into the 4 wisdom knowledges or Buddha-jnanas.
@kyliegreer45438 жыл бұрын
Thanks! That helped a lot :)
@barbarasayas753611 ай бұрын
Greetings, Could you speak to the topic of multiple personalities? Respectfully, bjs
@BitchItsJules4 жыл бұрын
So Buddhism is like materialism but with consciousness?
@juanmartincastellonese77245 жыл бұрын
I have a question here. If you can move your awarness unto the first stage of the process, as you invite to try, then you can have consciuousness outside this process. There must be an "observer" which is independient of all this five stage awareness process. What is that? Is that a self?
@nahanng77912 жыл бұрын
There is no observer
@GregoryWonderwheel Жыл бұрын
"move your awareness" is an illusion like marking the side of the boat as the movement of the land. Awareness is unmoving. I'm not trying to be contrarian, just to point out how the concept of "moving our awareness" is a mis-perception (3rd skandha) and mis-conception (4th skanda).
@emandejnozka13696 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry, the Skandhas are a lot more simple to explain than this: 1) FORM- Duality. (I in relation to everything else as other. 2) FEELING- a judgement of "other" as is it threatening? Is it attractive? Is it irrelevant? 3) PERCEPTION/ IMPULSE- a reaction to previous Skandha as by rejection, attraction, ignoring. 4) CONCEPT- a further application by comparative analysis to previous experiences. 5) CONSCIOUSNESS- application of emotional response as per six realms of manifestation. --- these comprise a prelude to each and every conscious thought. Need for Shamata/Vipashana meditation practice to see how this applies to you.
@6Uncles5 жыл бұрын
Well said. Where did u draw this explanation from?
@6Uncles5 жыл бұрын
Would love to learn more.. Its quite clear
@chamilawickramarathna335 жыл бұрын
Excellent explanation. Few additions. 1. Rupa is Duality 2. Vedana is Subjectivity that is liking disliking or irrelavent 3. Sanna is corresponding Objectivity that is attractive repulsive or nutral 4. Sankara is emmotional response by the Subject (I) to Object(environment). 5. Vinnana is the being aware or becoming the responsible to emotional response having identified the responder as I.
@juanmartincastellonese77245 жыл бұрын
This is ok, but, isn't that "sense of self", the self itself?