Devon Hase: The Givens and the Tangles: Dukkha and the Five Aggregates of Clinging

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha’s first noble truth names the hard facts of life (birth, aging, illness, death, separation from what we love), then says in brief: it all comes down to the five aggregates of clinging. In this talk we explore the difference between the givens we can’t avoid and the tangles we add, and how seeing the aggregates as “not mine” opens the way to freedom.