The Burden and Prison...
Bhikkhu Samahita
Friends:
What are the 5 Burdens we Cling to?
I: There is the cluster of clinging to
Material Form and Body (Rūpa):
The cluster of clinging to form is like clinging to a sick-room, since it will
contain the sick and dying human
being, one inevitably will develop
into...
The body and all external form is
like a prison, since it locks one up in the
painful samsaric process of repeated rebirth, ageing, sickness and death!
All matter should be regarded as a lump of froth, because it will not endure
existence. Form is like the dish the process of being is served upon, yet all
material phenomena is impermanent, because of their inherent rise and fall.
II: There is the cluster of clinging to
Feeling (Vedanā):
Feeling is like a water-bubble,
because it can only be enjoyed for an instant!
Bodily painful feeling and mental
unhappy feeling is like the sickness
because
it afflicts and torments. Feeling is the punishment beings meet in the prison,
caused by disadvantageous kamma
having been performed and accumulated.
The consequent effect: Pain is like the food of existence, one just has to
eat.
III: There is the cluster of clinging to
Perception (Saññā):
Perception of any sense experience
is like a mirage because it causes illusion.
It is like the provocation, that causes disease, since it gives rise to the feeling
associated with any sense
experience, which very often is
accompanied by greed.
Perception is like the offence, that brings & holds one fixed inside the
prison.
Experience can be likened to a spicy
curry sauce poured over the food of
being.
No experience can ever be controlled and is thus neither me, mine, nor any self.
IV: There is the cluster of clinging to
Mental Construction (Sankhāra):
Mental
construction is like returning to what is unsuitable because it is the very
source of any painful feeling.
Mental construction is thus the punisher in the
prison and the server of the food of the distressing and excruciating
feeling...
Mental construction is like a banana palm trunk, because it has no solid
core...
Since its formation cannot be fully
managed, governed or commanded it is no-self!
V: There is the cluster of
clinging to Consciousness (Viññāna):
Consciousness is like a trick, because it deceives by
conjuring up a void appearance.
Consciousness is the eater of the food of painful suffering inherent in
existence!
Consciousness is like the offender since it is the entity
that is tortured by feeling.
Though captivating it lasts only a
single moment and will never return as the same...
Whatever one loves and cling to inevitably
becomes both a burden and a Prison!
Collectively these 5 clusters of
clinging is like an enemy with drawn sword who will
kill you again, they should be seen as a burden beings wander carrying on in samsara,
and a devourer and serial killer who will kill & devour any poor being repeatedly
by
dragging him through an endless
series of rebirth, ageing, sickness and death...
More on these 5 Clusters of Clinging (Khandha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Any_Kind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Not_Yours.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Leash.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Like_Foam.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fingernail_of_Soil.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Acquisition_of_Fuel.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Burning_Five.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stilling_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/khandha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
Have a nice relinquishing day!
Friendship is
the Greatest! 
Bhikkhu Samāhita _/\_ Sri
Lanka ]
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
The Burden and Prison!