Meditations for Recognizing the Five Aggregates

The five aggregates offer a systematic way to deconstruct and understand what we experience in life. With this method of analyzing and understanding each moment of our experience, we can discover the source of our suffering and unhappiness. It is to be found within the five aggregates. When we replace our confusion with correct understanding, then the nature of the way we experience things is going to be very different. We will no longer have our so-called “ordinary” five aggregates; rather, we will experience things in terms of the five types of deep awareness. Each of the five types of deep awareness is a type of transformation of a corresponding aggregate.