A Voyage Within the Portals of the 5 Aggregates
Channel: Ajarn Spencer
Date: 12/12/2017

A Voyage Within the Portals of the 5 Aggregates is a talk which hopes to lead you into seeing the invisible processes and chain of events within the physical body, which lead to the illusion of the experience being of a living human. A Living Self, an Individual who is somehow Inherently existent as separate and apart from the rest of the Universe. This talk hopes to give insights into how to break out of this Illusory form of Entrapment of Consciousness.
A Voyage within following the line of fire, or the trajectory of the ping pong ball we call 'Saññā' (Perception and Memory) - how it stirs up all the trouble within the other four Khandas (aggregates). It passes information between each aggregate, like a messenger, quicksilver fast.. so fast that we never even notice it until it has already hit us! The Talk discusses how Perception and Memory Condition our Thought Formations (Sangkhara), and in turn, our Emotional Reactions (Vedhanā) to those Thought Formations. How this then bounces back to our Consciousness, and conditions our Outward Behaviour (Karma) - This Behaviour then also bounces back, becoming a Memory (Perception), and conditions our future Behaviour pattern. And so we remain locked within the cycle of Paticca Sammupphada (wheel of dependent origination)... forever, unless we attain the unattainable (for there is nothing to be attained in the end). Until Nibbana.