Matter, feeling, cognition, volition and consciousness are the natural contexts through which its third form, Shankhara, is experienced.
Matter, feeling, cognition, volition and consciousness are the natural contexts through which its third form, Shankhara, is experienced. Along with impersonality and impermanence it characterizes its religion. Samatha and Vipassana are common approaches towards the recognition of its truth. The Pali Canon asserts that Marga is the methodology through which one may understand Nirodha, its cessation, and Samudaya, its origin. Hence the arrival to the insight of these truths is the step necessary to end samsara and achieve nirvana. For 10 points-- what is first of the four noble truths, the state of suffering, relief from which is the central aim of Buddhists.
Matter, feeling, cognition, volition and consciousness are the natural contexts through which its third form, Shankhara, is experienced.
{Dukkha} (prompt: suffering)