7th Issue (March, 2008)

Truth Lies in Your Five Aggregates

By K.Wong

Tathāgata expounding epistemology
of direct empirical experience and verification
A logical positivist indeed He is
Unveiling the treasure of intuitive discernment
The source of an ineffable universal Truth
A sentient being – an image of Tathāgata
The microcosm – a reflection of macrocosm
A human being – not the proprietor of five aggregates

Five Aggregates constituting the multiplicity
Multiplicity – the six sense objects of perception
Forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touches and ideas
Tathāgata admonishes: Depersonalize them
This is not I; This is not Mine; This does not belong to Me
Negate all forms of private ownership of body and mind
Resulting in the Five Aggregates of non-grasping
You thus perceive the Tathāgata with demise of or Mine

The Truth lies in the Five Aggregates
Perceive esoterically not exoterically
Seek the expedient devices of fundamental doctrines
Discern intuitively the Three Universal Characteristics
Anicca, Dukkha and Anattā
Penetrate insightfully operation of Dependent Co-arising
Apprehend wisely the Four Noble Truths
Consummating the Noble Eight Fold Path  

Volitions are no more stirred and activated
The Seer of Nibbāna is fully appeased or tamed
Erroneous mental constructs cease
Mental dispersion and obsessions vanish
Relinquishing of all (substantial) views
Of either absolute existence or absolute non-existence
Treading on the Middle Path of Non-discrimination
Annihilating the illusive self and ego