Form-skandha

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pael
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Form-skandha

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Does form skandha only refer to beings body? Or every material thing/part in universe (sun, moon, atoms,etc.)?
Shortly, does it mean self and its belongings?
May all beings be free from suffering and causes of suffering
Malcolm
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pael wrote:Does form skandha only refer to beings body? Or every material thing/part in universe (sun, moon, atoms,etc.)?
Shortly, does it mean self and its belongings?
It refers to one's body, one's physical sense organs and their objects.

So for example, anything you are seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting or touching is, for the duration of that sense contact, part of the rupa-skanda or material aggregate [form is an incorrect translation here].
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Karma Dondrup Tashi
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Re: Form-skandha

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M-la's response is skillful means. It refers to the first ten of the eleven resultant forms.

Butchering the cow gets more complicated.

For example the Khejuk sees value in revisiting the four causal elements and the eleventh resultant form.

The latter is even chopped up into five further pieces by the Svatantrikas.
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Karma Dondrup Tashi wrote:M-la's response is skillful means. It refers to the first ten of the eleven resultant forms.
Avijñapti is rejected by Sautrantikas, this is why I did not mention it.
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There are five vedana. Pleasure and mental pleasure, pain and mental pain, and neutral sensation.
Does every of 5 senses have these 5 vedanas? Is seeing of ugly things only mental pain or actual pain?
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pael wrote:There are five vedana. Pleasure and mental pleasure, pain and mental pain, and neutral sensation.
Does every of 5 senses have these 5 vedanas? Is seeing of ugly things only mental pain or actual pain?
Yes.

It can be both. For example, you smell something disgusting and it makes you vomit.
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