Masks Of The Five Aggregates

The so-called "five aggregates" are:
Material Form (phenomena)
Feeling (sensations and feelings)
Thinking (conceptions of perceptions)
Volition or Mental Formation (the driving force of change and transformation)
Consciousness (discrimination and differentiation)
These "five aggregates" make up all outer,
impermanent, and changing conditions.
To find your "Buddha Nature," it is necessary to
relinquish all attachment to the "five aggregates."
Whether perceiving the "Emptiness" of the aggregates,
or relinquishing attachment to the aggregates, either one will do.
Complete "Emptiness" of the "five aggregates"
allows you to know how to recognize and experience
your inner nature - the true nature of the mind and heart.
If is just like when other people are wearing masks,
you can only recognize the masks,
but not the people themselves.
Detachment from the "five aggregates"
allows you to truly identify and experience the real face
behind the mask, your true nature.

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