Five Skandhas
What is Five Skandhas?
The five skandhas are five elements or “aggregates” said to constitute human experience in Buddhism. The Five skandhas are any of five kinds of phenomena that serve as aim of clinging and bases for a sense of self. The five skandhas are form, consciousness, feeling, perception, and formation. Outside of Buddhist didactic contexts, “skandha” can mean mass, heap, pile, bundle or tree trunk. The first of the cetasika is feeling, or vedanā, which includes anything experienced through the five senses.
The path to enlightenment, or nirvana, requires recognizing the five skandhas as temporary and abandon and losing one’s attachments to them eventually arrive at “non-self” or anatta. This is usually accomplished by meditation.
The Five Skandhas,
Form (rupa)
Apperception or sensibility
Perception
Volition, will
Consciousness
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