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please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. These last few weeks have been continuing with a series of talks on the Satipitana

Suta, particularly discussing different aspects of the fourth foundation of mindfulness, which is

mindfulness of the Dama.

So dama here means particularly categories of experience.

Means the understanding of how different elements of the body and mind function.

So the Buddha includes in this

includes in this foundation of mindfulness, things like the five hindrances,

how different factors function as hindrances,

as the five aggregates, as the six-sense spheres,

is the seven factors of Enlightenment, four noble truths.

So all of this is included in the fourth foundation.

So in the middle now of examining what the Buddha called the five aggregates of

clinging. And this is the basic analysis of our subjective experience.

The analysis of everything we call self or we call I.

It's through the careful contemplation or mindfulness investigation of these five aggregates that were able to experientially deconstruct this sense of self, which is the fundamental cause of suffering and discontent in our lives.

So of the five aggregates, we've already discussed Rupa,

which is the physical elements,

Vaidna, which is the feeling tone of pleasantness,

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