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Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN45: Connected Discourses on the Path

SN45:178 Aggregates Subject to Clinging

1"Bhikkhus, there are these five aggregates subject to clinging. What five?
The form aggregate subject to clinging,
the feeling aggregate subject to clinging, sn.v.61
the perception aggregate subject to clinging,
the volitional formations aggregate subject to clinging,
the consciousness aggregate subject to clinging.
These are the five aggregates subject to clinging.


The Noble Eightfold Path is to be developed
- for direct knowledge of these five aggregates subject to clinging,
- for the full understanding of them,
- for their utter destruction,
- for their abandoning.

What Noble Eightfold Path?
Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu develops right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration,
- which is based upon seclusion, dispassion, and cessation, maturing in release;
- which has as its final goal the removal of lust, the removal of hatred, the removal of delusion;
- which has the Deathless as its ground, the Deathless as its destination, the Deathless as its final goal;
- which slants, slopes, and inclines towards Nibbāna.


This Noble Eightfold Path is to be developed
- for direct knowledge of these five aggregates subject to clinging,
- for the full understanding of them,
- for their utter destruction,
- for their abandoning."


This sutta may be fully expanded in accordance with the fourfold method employed in SN45.161.

1"Pañcime, bhikkhave, upādānakkhandhā. Katame pañca?
Seyyathidaṁ – rūpupādānakkhandho, vedanupādānakkhandho, saññupādānakkhandho, saṅkhārupādānakkhandho, viññāṇupādānakkhandho. Ime kho, bhikkhave, pañcupādānakkhandhā.


Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, pañcannaṁ upādānakkhandhānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya … pe …


ayaṁ ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo bhāvetabbo"ti.


Aṭṭhamaṁ.