Cugetari din Dharma

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"It is easy to generate a wish to abandon unpleasant feelings, but to generate a wish to abandon contaminated pleasant and neutral feelings we need a very good understanding of the nature of samsara.

Both contaminated feelings and contaminated discriminations are key links in the chain that binds us to samsara.

Contaminated discriminations identify objects as pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral; and contaminated feelings experience them in these ways.

Contaminated feelings then give rise to the three poisons, which in turn lead us to perform contaminated actions, the principal causes of rebirth in samsara.

As mentioned earlier, it is because feelings and discriminations are so import*ant that when Buddha explained the five aggregates he selected them from among the 51 mental factors and designated them each as a separate aggregate."