These suttas were presented in April 2025.
Dīgha Nikāya
- DN 22 From… Mahā Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta: The Great Establishing of Mindfulness Discourse—Aggregates, “And how does a monk remain focused on mental qualities in & of themselves with reference to the five clinging-aggregates?”
Majjhima Nikāya
- MN 28 From… Mahāhatthipadopamasutta: The Longer Simile of the Elephant’s Footprint, “These five grasping aggregates are indeed dependently originated.”
- MN 35 From… Cūḷasaccakasutta: The Shorter Discourse With Saccaka, “How does the worthy Gotama guide his disciples?”
- MN 138 From… Uddesavibhaṅgasutta: A Summary Recital and its Analysis, “Anxieties occupy the mind, born of latching on to the perishing of form…”
- MN 72 From… Aggivacchasutta: With Vacchagotta on Fire, “This fire in front of you that is quenched: in what direction did it go—east, south, west, or north?”
Saṁyutta Nikāya
- SN 18.21 Anusayasutta: Tendency, “Sir, how does one know and see so that there’s no I-making…”
- SN 22.1 Nakulapitusutta: Nakulapita, “How, householder, is one afflicted in body and afflicted in mind?”
- SN 22.22 Bhārasutta: The Burden, “I will teach you the burden, the carrier of the burden, the taking up of the burden, and the laying down of the burden.”
- SN 22.29 Abhinandanasutta: Taking Pleasure, “Mendicants, if you take pleasure in form, you take pleasure in suffering.”
- SN 22.30 Uppādasutta: Arising, “The arising, continuation, rebirth, and manifestation of form is the arising of suffering…”
- SN 22.37 Ānandasutta: With Ānanda, “What are the things for which arising is evident…?”
- SN 22.46 Dutiyaaniccasutta: Impermanent (2), “When one sees this thus as it really is with correct wisdom, one holds no more views concerning the past.”
- SN 22.48 Khandhasutta: Aggregates, “Bhikkhus, I will teach you the five aggregates and the five aggregates subject to clinging.”
- SN 22.47 Samanupassanāsutta: Ways of Regarding, “Whatever ascetics and brahmins regard various kinds of things as self, all regard the five grasping aggregates, or one of them”
- SN 22.51 Nandikkhayasutta: Destruction of Delight (1), “A bhikkhu sees as impermanent form which is actually impermanent: that is his right view…”
- SN 22.56 Upādānaparipavattasutta: Phases of the Clinging Aggregates, “So long as I did not directly know as they really are the five aggregates subject to clinging in four phases…”
- SN 22.61 Ādittasutta: Burning, “Bhikkhus, form is burning, feeling is burning, perception is burning…”
- SN 22.82 Puṇṇamasutta: A Full Moon Night, “Sir, what is the scope of the term ‘aggregates’ as applied to the aggregates?”
- SN 22.86 Anurādhasutta: Anuradha, “What do you think, Anuradha, do you regard the Tathagata as in form?”
- SN 22.89 Khemakasutta: Khemaka, “Still, in relation to the five aggregates subject to clinging, there lingers in him a residual conceit ‘I am,’…”
- SN 22.93 Nadīsutta: The River, “Suppose there was a mountain river sweeping downwards, flowing into the distance with a swift current.…”
- SN 22.95 Pheṇapiṇḍūpamasutta: A Lump of Foam, “Bhikkhus, suppose that this river Ganges was carrying along a great lump of foam.”
- SN 23.4 Pariññeyyasutta: Should Be Completely Understood, “I will teach you the things that should be completely understood, complete understanding, and the person who has completely understood.”
- SN 23.5 Samaṇasutta: Ascetics and Brahmins, “There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ gratification, drawback, and escape.”
- SN 26.10 Khandhasutta: The Aggregates, “The arising, continuation, rebirth, and manifestation of form is the arising of suffering…”
- SN 41.3 Dutiyaisidattasutta: With Isidatta (2nd), “Householder, there are many different views that arise in the world.”
- SN 45.159 Āgantukasutta: A Guest House, “Mendicants, suppose there was a guest house.”
- SN 56.13 Khandhasutta: Aggregates, “And what is the noble truth of suffering?”
Theragāthā
- Thag 1.90 Sāmidattattheragāthā: Sāmidatta, “The five aggregates are fully understood; they remain, but their root is cut.”
Therīgāthā
- Thig 6.3 Khemātherīgāthā: Khemā, “Sensual pleasures are like swords and spears; the aggregates are their chopping block.”