Thursday, May 24, 2012

Day 17 of 365: Skandhas in Everyday Life

I'll be bringing the 5 skandhas together in practice for the next couple of days.  For today, the plan is to spend 30 seconds (or more if I have it) on the hour, every hour, looking at where I think "I" am.  I've found myself getting caught up in intellectual notions of where I think I am, which seem to have little to do with where I feel I am in daily life, in some of the contemplations.  So, this contemplation is an attempt to bring this back down to earth.  Every time I look, I will flash naively on where the sense of me is and then why I take it to be me.  Is it in the body or conciousness (in the sense of skandhas 2-5)?  What about this moment of conciousness do I take for a self?  What part of the body am I identifying with?  How do the stories I'm telling myself contribute?

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