What a delight to hear this talk.....notwithstanding just heard teaching not to form any opinions!

Great job of presenting a clear and concise overview of the Skandhas.

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

Your presentation was clear and comprehensive. Thank you very much!

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.

Thanks Paul, a great explanation.

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.

Nice video, that picture at the end though creeped me out lol

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

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.

If a tree falls in the forest, it is heard by many plants, animals, insects and microorganisms.

You okay? Sounds like there’s some pretty serious shit going on next door. Great Video! Easier to follow than most. Thank you!

Hi Marco Krop, thanks for your comment! I appreciate it.

Outstanding Paul clap clap!

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?

did they put out that fire or what ? xD Thanks for this teaching Paul.

very well explained !! Thank you

detailed and insightful and so helpful thank you

Many thanks

This clarified so many questions I had. Great video, thank you :)

Thank you so much

thank you!!

Well Explained..

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.

Thanks! That helped a lot :)

Greetings, Could you speak to the topic of multiple personalities? Respectfully, bjs

So Buddhism is like materialism but with consciousness?

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?

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.

This is ok, but, isn't that "sense of self", the self itself?

Shadu Shadu Shadu