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I think it is not wrong to say that each of us has asked ourselves the question «who am I?» at least once in our lives. But have we ever found the answer? Am I this physical body? Am I my sensations, thoughts or emotions? Or am I something else? The teachings of the Five Aggregates bring us closer to understanding such questions. After all, the Five Aggregates are all that we have, all that we mistakenly believe we are, our true selves.

These five components of our false «self» are as follows:

1. Physical body – Pāli and Sanskrit: rūpa (literally: «form»).

2. Sensations (Feelings) – Pali and Sanskrit: vēdanā.

3. Perceptions – Pāli: saññā, Sanskrit: saṃjñā

4. Formed experience – Pāli: sankhāra, Sanskrit: saṃskāra.

5. Distinguishing consciousness – Pāli: viññāṇa, Sanskrit: vijñāna.

Unfortunately, neither mere enumeration nor arguments about what and how it should be translated from Pali and Sanskrit will bring us any closer to understanding these five components.