The World-Honored One told the bhikṣus: One who craves and delights in the aggregate of form (rūpa) is one who craves and delights in suffering; one who delights in suffering cannot be liberated from suffering, cannot eliminate ignorance, and cannot depart from craving. One who craves and delights in the aggregate of feeling (vedanā), the aggregate of perception (saṃjñā), the aggregate of formations (saṃskāra), and the aggregate of consciousness (vijñāna) is one who craves and delights in suffering. One who craves and delights in suffering cannot attain liberation from suffering, cannot eliminate ignorance, and cannot depart from craving. Why is it that one who craves and delights in the aggregate of form, feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness is one who delights in suffering? Because craving and delighting is a defiled mind, not pure. When one craves and delights in the five aggregates (pañcaskandha), one is bound by the five aggregates, the mind becomes stuck, and one cannot attain liberation. When sentient beings' manas has the affliction of self-love and grasps at their own five aggregates, unwilling to extinguish them, then at the end of life there will be the neutrino-body (antarā-bhava). Within the antarā-bhava, because the manas grasps at self and wishes for a material body in a future life, it will go to take rebirth in a womb, and thus the five aggregates of the next life arise. Where there are the five aggregates, there is suffering; birth, old age, sickness, death, and countless sorrows, griefs, sufferings, and distresses (śoka-parideva-duḥkha-daurmanasyopāyāsa) appear without end. Therefore, craving and delighting in the five aggregates is delighting in suffering. The World-Honored One further told the bhikṣus: One who does not crave and delight in the aggregate of form is one who does not delight in the feeling of suffering; one who does not delight in the feeling of suffering can attain liberation from the feeling of suffering. Likewise, one who does not crave and delight in the aggregate of feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness is one who does not delight in the feeling of suffering; one who does not delight in the feeling of suffering can be liberated from the feeling of suffering. The World-Honored One told the bhikṣus: One who does not know and does not clearly understand the aggregate of form cannot depart from craving; without departing from craving, the mind cannot attain liberation. If craving is not eliminated and there is no liberation, then one cannot eliminate the feeling of suffering and cannot be liberated from the feeling of suffering. Likewise, one who does not know and does not clearly understand the aggregate of feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness cannot depart from craving; without departing from craving, the mind cannot attain liberation, and when the mind does not attain liberation, one cannot eliminate suffering. The World-Honored One told the bhikṣus: If one can know and clearly understand the aggregate of form, one can depart from craving; if one can depart from craving, the mind can attain liberation, and one whose mind has attained liberation can eliminate suffering. Likewise, if one can know and clearly understand the aggregate of feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness, one can depart from craving; if one can depart from craving, the mind can attain liberation, and one whose mind has attained liberation can extinguish suffering.
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