Day 33 of 365: Looking at the Aggregates

I know, you're thinking, "The aggregates again?!"  It just never seems to get old to take a look at them.  The same argument from yesterday can be applied to the aggregates themselves.  One goes through the five possible relationships between the self and the aggregates just as with fire and firewood.  A sample for the skandha of form follows:

The self is not forms,
The self is not something other than forms,
The self does not have or possess any forms,
The self does not exist in dependence upon forms,
And forms do not exist in dependence upon the self.


From a personal standpoint, I have found it beneficial to work with the first two lines.  The language in the remaining three gets me hung up.  After all, I feel like I possess my body!  According to Khenpo, the later three lines are all similar to the second line.  All these statements refute the differentiation between the self and forms.  Throwing in the other skandhas, there are 25 verses all together--only 10 if you work with the first two lines of each.  Have fun!