Ways of Regarding Things, SN 22.47, Sutta Reading with Discussion and Meditation Group
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In this short discourse, the Buddha explains how a mistaken sense of “I” arises. Kirsten expailes how it is sustained by clinging to the five aggregates—form (body), feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness. First, an uninstructed person, unfamiliar with noble training and insight, habitually regards these aggregates as self or as belonging to self. As a result, ignorance conditions repeated notions such as “I am,” “I am this,” “I will be,” and “I will not be,” along with speculative views about existence and non-existence.
However, these assumptions dissolve through clear understanding of how experience arises and passes away. With the fading of ignorance and the arising of clear knowing, habitual “I am” clinging no longer occurs.
From a Buddhist perspective, this Kirsten Jones applies this sutta that shows that seeing phenomena as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self is essential. Therefore, direct observation of body, feeling, and mind supports the release of self-view and the deepening of wisdom in meditation practice.
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