No one can eradicate the functional process of the five aggregates (skandhas) as long as they live. But ones must be able to gain insightful understanding that
“mental fabrications and non-fabrications are parts of life that is natural” without self-existence in there since it has always been selfless from the very beginning.
Any efforts trying to change satisfactory or dissatisfactory sensations are caused by misperceptions leading to self-benefits with hidden aims that…
if those sensations can be eradicated, there will exist only oneself who will be relieved, relaxed, comfortably in emptiness. Either we will be emptied or our mind also emptied. We will be freed from sufferings, attaining nirvana.
In fact, those arising mental sensations are “natural phenomena of the five aggregates (skandhas), responsive through the six senses of perception which are eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind”.
These mind phenomena cannot be completely eradicated or completely terminated as long as one is alive!!!.
Likewise any efforts trying to eradicate, to improve, to correct those phenomena are means of rapid move into mental formations.
The right path must be insightful understanding that those physical and mental perceptions are just only “the natural phenomena” just like a flash of lightning, thunderstorms or thunderbolt which occurring naturally by their own causes and conditions.
The effects of those stimulus are just the usual natural conditions of the five aggregates (skandhas). They are habitual behaviors or latent defilements accumulated through many lifetimes.
In attending to correct, change, or fabricate unsatisfactory sensations until they are dissolving and facing satisfactory conditions as desired for example relief, relax and comfortably emptied, but still cannot be freed from sufferings.
Such reactions either increase “more desires, more greeds, and more ambitions” or clinging on to the sensations of relief, relaxation and emptiness instead. This is still holding on to mental fabrications which sufferings still remain.
This includes false perception that... if one can eradicate “mental fabrications” totally then this will become “unconditioned emptiness”. So one will be free from sufferings.
These make most people struggle in trying to get rid of all mental fabrications.
But in reality, mental fabrications and non-fabrications are simultaneously together, only independently functional.
No one can terminate the functions of the five aggregates (skandhas) as long as they live.
But ones need to understand deeply into their minds that both “mental fabrications and non-fabrications are just one part of lives that is natural” and without self-existence whatsoever.
Since there has never been any self-existence from the very beginning so there will be no one to handle the process of mental fabrications and non-fabrications.
Simply know, observe, and understand the functions of mental fabrications and non-fabrications without holding on to any self-existence.
This is sufficient enough to be free from sufferings.
Only this, simply just this, truly as a matter of fact.
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Just simply stop those struggles and anxieties, the rest will be at their own peace. It is so extraordinarily peaceful, most peaceful.
Free from oneself, neither human beings nor non-human beings, neither us nor them. There are none of any struggles and anxieties, without any desires to take or not to take.
Mental fabrications and all the burdens are let go, as if the long distance journey has ended. When both physically and mentally heavy burdens are let go, then it becomes peacefully, quietly silent throughout this worldly universe from heart to heart at the bottom of the heart - that is “mind”, turning into peacefully, quietly silent, evolving all in one with this worldly universe.
Luangta Narongsak Kheenalayo
Preaching from VDO : Nature is Selfless
YouTube VDO :
Nature is Selfless (English Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW89ZkcNpmo
Nature is Selfless (English Subtitle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBpjS1WyldQ
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