Vesak Poya - APPLICATION OF YONISO MANASIKĀRA: SIMILES FOR THE FIVE AGGREGATES

Welcome to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is ONLY the APPLICATION OF YONISO MANASIKARA APPLYING THE SIMILES FOR THE FIVE AGGREGATES from the Vesak Poya Dhamma Session, conducted via zoom on 26 May 2021. **Please note - each contemplation is a gradual and sequential development of yoniso manasikara, therefore you may wish to do the meditations or contemplations in sequence. For the full 3.5hr session (including contemplations) you can listen to episode 103 WHY YONISO MANASIKARA IS ESSENTIAL TO THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH (Vesak Poya FULL Dhamma Session) In this segment from the Vesak Poya Dhamma Session, we briefly examine Buddha's teachings on USING FIVE DIFFERENCE SIMILES TO SEE THROUGH THE FIVE AGGREGATES - see them as VOID, HOLLOW, EMPTY, WORTHLESS, NO SUBSTANCE. It's useful to do this meditation (although we didn't during the Dhamma session) as it reinforces the earlier meditations on the five aggregates, and takes it further to enable you to clearly see in your meditation these aggregates as empty (suññato) and not worth taking as me and mine (anattato).  The main suttas supporting this contemplation: — Pheṇapiṇḍūpama Sutta (SN 22.95) A VIDEO of this segment has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YoutTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx-Z0w8gIQE Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai