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Feb 5, 2024 - Sean Tetsudo Murphy on the Five Conditions

Feb 05, 2024
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When we project conditioning from our past onto the present, we turn a benign moment into something else. Understanding the “five conditions” can help us get back to reality.

Like many others, I’ve always found traditional Buddhist formulations of the five “aggregates” (Skt., skandhas ) difficult to put into practice in my everyday life. For me, such tea…

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