The five appropriated aggregates are suffering

37 Middle-Length Lamrim

Part of a series of weekly teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa's Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.

  • Guided meditation on the five aspects of the suffering of aging
  • The five appropriated aggregates are suffering
    • They are the vessel of suffering yet to come
    • They are the vessel of the suffering already arisen
    • The are the vessel for the suffering of suffering
    • They are the vessel for the suffering of change
    • The are in the nature of the suffering of conditioning
  • The purpose of contemplating suffering is the develop disenchantment with samsara
  • Control, influence and choice with regard to karma and afflictions
  • The six types of suffereing
    • Having to discard one’s body again and again
    • The is no certainty in samsara
    • Companions don’t go with us at death
    • Being born again and again
    • There is no satisfaction in samsara

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