Chapter 2. Human Nature
Dhamma can aggregate to form more dhamma and the aggregates can combine to form bigger and more complicated dhamma, and so on. There are five aggregates that are of particular interest. They are referred to as the "Five Aggregates" (Pāli: Panca Khandha) and will collectively be denoted by H . The set H consists of two subsets, R (Pāli: Rūpa) containing one aggregate and N (Pāli: Nāma) containing four aggregates, which will be denoted by N1, N2, N3, and N4. H is identifiable to a human individual with R and N being what commonly referred to as the human body and the human mind, respectively. More precisely,
R contains (or includes) all body parts, external and internal organs including all the sense organs, nerves, blood, fluid, as well as all the physical, chemical, and physiological processes.
N1 contains six kinds of sense-consciousness, i.e. eye-consciousness, ear-consciousness, nose-consciousness, taste-consciousness, touch-consciousness, and mental consciousness. The Pāli term for N1 is "viññāna".
N2 is perception and sixfold with respect to the five senses and the ideas perceived by the mind. The Pāli term for N2 is "saññā".
N3 contains three kinds of sensation and feeling, i.e. positive or pleasant, negative or unpleasant, and neutral or neither pleasant nor unpleasant. The Pāli term for N3 is "vedanā".
N4 is thinking and all kinds of mental formation. The Pāli term for N4 is "saṅkhāra".
In sum, H ∈ D and H ⊂ D such that
H = R U N where N = N1 U N2 U N3 U N4.
Furthermore,
N1 = N11 U N12 U N13 U N14 U N15 U N16
where N11, N12, N13, N14, N15, and N16 are eye-consciousness, ear-consciousness, nose-consciousness, taste-consciousness, touch-consciousness, and mental consciousness, respectively. Similarly,
N2 = N21 U N22 U N23 U N24 U N25 U N26
where N21, N22, N23, N24, N25, and N26 are perceptions pertaining to the eye, ear, nose, taste, touch, and mind, respectively. In addition,
N3 = N31 U N32 U N33
where N31, N32, and N33 are positive, negative, and neutral sensation and feeling, respectively.
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