Pascal Auclair

Maybe we could say...

Oh, there's the bodily stuff and there's the mental stuff.

Well, the Buddha divided the human experience in many ways, in six senses, in 32 parts of the body, but also in five aggregates, five aspects of our experience in which we get often caught tight around or upset about or confused about.

And yeah, that podcast, I think, might still be available.

It's good stuff.

We get obsessed in so many ways.

We get worked up in so many ways that the Buddha offered many different lists, and these are two of them.

The one that we're looking at today I like because it seemed to me very applicable.

That's what I like about it.

You know, what I do mostly is teach retreat.

People come on retreat, and often I'll want to give this teaching at the end of the retreat because I know people are going back home.

And this is what they're going to meet tomorrow, during the week, at work, in the family life, you know, at home, in relationships.

So I like that list because to me, it's very, very applicable.

The five aggregates is deep stuff.

It's good stuff.

As deep as what we're going to see today, but maybe more, a little bit harder to understand.

The four ways we cling together.

This what we're talking about today, I think, is very applicable.

Very people will recognize this.

I think as soon as we'll mention the different aspects, people will.