Life in all living beings, including human existence itself, according to Buddhist analytical insight, is not permanent. Nothing is substantial but only a composite of the five aggregates of existence: corporeality, feeling or sensation, perception, mental formation or volitional activities, and consciousness.
Corporeality refers to whole body, behaviour that arises from matter and its energy conditioned from the properties of the four elements.
Feeling is sense of pleasure, suffering and neutral, arising from neural contact between the sense organs and sense objects.
Perception is awareness resulting from reaction between the sense organs and sense objects.
Mental formation are volitional activities of the mind to commit wholesome, unwholesome deeds or neutral acts, under the influence of good or bad will, such as faith, mindfulness, conscience and compunction, the four noble sentiments, wisdom, defilement and obsession
Consciousness is sense of recognition arising from the reactions of the six sense to sense objects, such as : seeing, hearing, smelling and tasting including tangible and emotional ways.
Normally, man always tends to cling firmly to the belief that one's own body and mind is his or her own self. Some people believe that self is concealed within one's own mind and each person is able to control or destine one's own fate. The Five Aggregates are an analytical view of life in Buddha's teachings that confirm the concept of " Non Self or Soullessness ", so that one who is aware and understand this idea can detach from self.
By THE BUDDHA'S Core Teachings
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