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Vocabulary Related to the Five Aggregates on Eyes

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Terms and Definitions

  • Aggregates (khandhā): The five components that make up a person's experience, including matter, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness.

  • Eye-Consciousness (cakkhu-vijñāna): The awareness that arises when the eye interacts with visible forms.

  • Feeling (vedanā): The sensations that arise from contact with visible forms, which can be pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral.

  • Perception (saññā): The process of recognizing and interpreting the visible forms.

  • Volition (cetanā): The mental factor that drives intention and decision-making in response to what is perceived.

  • Material Aggregate (rūpakkhandhā): The physical aspect of experience, which includes the sensitive matter of the eye and visible forms.

  • Mental Factors (cetasika): The various aspects of mind that accompany consciousness, such as feeling, perception, and volition.

  • Consciousness (citta): The awareness or knowing aspect of the mind that experiences thoughts and sensations.

  • Mental Phenomena (nāma): The non-physical aspects of experience, including consciousness and mental factors.

  • Physical Phenomena (rūpa): The tangible aspects of experience, which include matter and visible forms.

Sample Sentence

When visible form strikes the sensitive matter of the eye, eye-consciousness arises, accompanied by the mental factors of feeling, perception, and volition, forming the aggregates that together create our understanding of both mental and physical phenomena.