The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
Describe two more Aggregates.
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The third aggregate is perception, which are often erroneous and include noticing, naming and conceptualizing. Incorrect perceptions cause unpleasant feelings and are conditioned by the afflictions in us of ignorance, craving, hatred, anger, and jealousy when we perceive without insight into impermanence and interbeing. "All suffering is born from wrong perceptions." Mindfulness can help us see the errors in our perceptions and bring true vision. The fourth aggregate is forty-nine mental formations, (fifty-one, excluding feelings and perceptions). Each time a "seed is touched," it manifests in a mental formation, which is impermanent and without real substance. We must practice nourishing and developing "wholesome mental formations and transform unwholesome ones" to have freedom, non-fear and peace.