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please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. Tonight I'd like to continue the discussion of mindfulness of the Domiz, the fourth foundation of

mindfulness with respect to the aggregates of

mental formations and consciousness.

So last week we talked about Sankaras or the mental formations, which is the fourth of the five aggregates.

These are all those factors of mind

apart from feeling and perception that are the building blocks of our thoughts, of our emotions, of our moods, of different mind states.

According to the Abidama of the Buddhist psychology, there are 52 of these mental factors, different qualities of the mind.

Some of them are wholesome. Some of them are unwholesome, some of them are ethically neutral.

But they all color consciousness, each in their own particular way, according to their own characteristics.

And so just as a reminder, as an example of some of these mental factors. It's things like desire and aversion

of restlessness of doubt of concentration, mindfulness, wisdom, rapture, energy,

all of those different states of mind that we experience.

Each of them is called a mental factor. By being mindful of them as they arise in our experience.

Whenever they become predominant,

we begin to see directly for ourselves that each of these factors

is impermanent, it arises, it's there, it passes away, and see it's impersonal or non-personal nature. So rising out of

causes. So in this aggregate of Sankara of mental formations, which includes all of these

different mental factors, the Buddha

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