Glasses

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Here is a brief conclusion of the Buddha's explanation of reality AS the five Skandhas from the Puppha Sutta (which I cannot find on Access to Insight) but it is somewhere near the Channa Sutta,
which includes the title of this entire booklet, "When it is thus explained, taught, disclosed, analyzed and elucidated by the Tathagata, if there is someone who does not know and see, how can I do anything with that foolish common person, blind and sightless, who does not know and see?"

Not knowing, not seeing.
The first insight I really tried to digest, although it did not come from a religious text or person, was that the self is jealous and hides its true nature to itself.  Now I know that there can be arguments as to the nature of self, and as time goes by I am less comfortable getting away from my constructs, but there is that construct, which has a great deal of subtle power.  The lenses with which we think we see the world are themselves a compound mess.

Sayadaw goes on to reference the Sattipattana Sutta, wherein the Buddha explains (or starts to)  how the aggregates are suffering; "The materiality aggregate of clinging; the feeling aggregate of clinging," etc.

We don't see things as the separate parts they are.  We don't see the how and why we have pasted the world to our senses.  So how can we take them back off and see beyond?