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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