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Numbered Discourses 9.66

7. Satipaṭṭhānavagga
7. Mindfulness Meditation

Upādānakkhandhasutta

Grasping Aggregates

“Pañcime, bhikkhave, upādānakkhandhā.
“Mendicants, there are these five grasping aggregates.

Katame pañca?
What five?

Rūpupādānakkhandho, vedanupādānakkhandho, saññupādānakkhandho, saṅkhārupādānakkhandho, viññāṇupādānakkhandho—
The grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness.

ime kho, bhikkhave, pañcupādānakkhandhā.
These are the five grasping aggregates.

Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, pañcannaṁ upādānakkhandhānaṁ pahānāya …pe… ime cattāro satipaṭṭhānā bhāvetabbā”ti.
To give up these five grasping aggregates you should develop the four kinds of mindfulness meditation. …”

Catutthaṁ.