Relations of the five Aggregates towards Meditation

Abstract

In general, the suffering is emerged in every single human beings, because of the mind and body existence. Human is struggling to escape that trait to survive. Furthermore, the five aggregates(form, sensations, perceptions, formations, consciousness) have been formed to be a human entity. The aggregates about mind and body can be a burden which definitely generates many of suffering. For getting things better, Buddhism suggests series instructions to put those suffering to an end by the way of meditation. Accordingly, these are 40 meditation forms; 10 Kasinas, 10 Asubhas, 10 Anussatis, 4 Brahmaviharas, Aharepatikurasanna, Catudhatuvavatthana and 4 Arupas. By performing mindfulness foundation, the practitioner is able to consider the occurance and cessation of five aggregates to understand the nature of life, and moreover he can figure the way that life is an uncontrollable entity under the rule of three characteristics. Hence, meditation inevitably needs the five aggregates which relate and play an important role to the meditation.