The Five Aggregates: Conventional and Deepest Reasons for Their Structure – Session Two: The Reasons for Their Structure, and Their Voidness

The Five Aggregates: Conventional and Deepest Reasons for Their Structure – Session Two: The Reasons for Their Structure, and Their Voidness: "(unedited transcript)

By the way, when we do vipassana meditation in the Theravada tradition, one of the things that we are trying to do is to become aware of this changing, this impermanence of the aggregate factors of the emotions, of the physical sensations, of the mental states, of the feeling of happiness, of unhappiness its the five aggregates. To be aware and to observe as it is happening, the moment to moment changing of all of them, first one at a time and then all of them together. They are all changing at these different rates. And then, that there is no solid me in all of this. That is the vipassana method in Theravada. They are very much connected with this.

Question: When you spoke about grasping at inherent existence and talked about how the Gelugpa position was that it arises in every moment, when we have discussed it here at the center, my understanding was that they made a distinction between the misapprehension of inherent existence and the actual grasping at inherent existence. I thought they said that grasping at inherent existence occurs during periods of really strong emotions, where the I rises up in a really distinguishing form. If you cognize that I am walking to the store, the grasping in that isnt really arising, just the misapprehension is there.

Alex: The question is a very good question. Its concerning grasping for true existence, or inherent existence however we want to translate it, depending on what school we are talking about, since it is used in several...

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