Letting Go of Everything | Detachment from 6 Sense Spheres & 5 Groups of Clinging | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Dhammagiri Buddhist PodcastsShow Notes
Ajahn Dhammasīha reminds us that the ultimate end of our whole Dhamma practice is letting go.
Letting go of what? Letting go of everything!
Everything means all sankhāras, all conditioned phenomena.
Once the heart lets go of all conditioned phenomena, it realizes the Unconditioned Deathless Reality, Nibbāna.
'Everything' (the Universe, the All) in the teaching of the noble ones is the six sense spheres, the 6 internal sense faculties and their external objects ('Saḷāyatana'): Eye and Forms Ear and Sounds Nose and Fragrances Tongue and Flavours Body and Bodily Sensations/Feelings Mind and Mental Objects/Ideas/Thoughts
'Everything' can also be expressed by the 'Five Groups of Clinging' ('Pañcupādānakkhandhā'): Form/Body (Rūpa) Feeling (Vedanā) Perception (Saññā) Intention/Volition (Cetanā) Consciousness (Viññāṇa)
The 5 Gourps of Clinging in particular constitute 'All' that can be misappropriated to support the illusion of Entity View/Self (Sakkāya-diṭṭhi/Attavādupādāna).
We have to observe and investigate these 6 sense sphere & 5 groups to understand their impermanent, unsatisfactory and not-self nature, in order to let go of them and experience the deathless reality free from all suffering.
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