The Elimination of The Five Aggregates is The Elimination of Discontentedness

Monks, the elimination, subsiding, and passing away of form … of feeling … of perception … of volitional formations (choices/decisions) … of consciousness is the elimination of discontentedness, the subsiding of disease, the passing away of aging‑and‑death.

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Monks, when a Monk is practicing in accordance with The Teachings, this is what accords with The Teachings: he should reside engrossed in fading away of strong feelings towards form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness.

One who resides engrossed in fading away of strong feelings towards form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness, fully understands form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness.

One who fully understands form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness is freed from form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness.

He is freed from birth, aging, and death; freed from sorrow, grief, pain, displeasure, and despair; freed from discontentedness, I say.

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Monks, when a Monk is practicing in accordance with The Teachings, this is what accords with The Teachings: he should reside reflecting on impermanence in form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness.

One who resides reflecting on impermanence in form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness, fully understands form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness.

One who fully understands form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness is freed from form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness.

He is freed from birth, aging, and death; freed from sorrow, grief, pain, displeasure, and despair; freed from discontentedness, I say.

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Monks, when a Monk is practicing in accordance with The Teachings, this is what accords with The Teachings: he should reside reflecting on discontentedness in form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness.

One who resides reflecting on discontentedness in form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness, fully understands form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness.

One who fully understands form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness is freed from form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness.

He is freed from birth, aging, and death; freed from sorrow, grief, pain, displeasure, and despair; freed from discontentedness, I say.

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Monks, when a Monk is practicing in accordance with The Teachings, this is what accords with The Teachings: he should reside reflecting on non-self in form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness.

One who resides reflecting on non-self in form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness, fully understands form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness.

One who fully understands form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness is freed from form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness.

He is freed from birth, aging, and death; freed from sorrow, grief, pain, displeasure, and despair; freed from discontentedness, I say.

(Reference: SN 22.39 - SN 22.42)

In this Teaching from Gotama Buddha, he shares that through eliminating The Five Aggregates of form, feeling, perception, volitional formations (choices/decisions), and consciousness that one has eliminated The Cycle of Rebirth.

A being is described by The Buddha in other Teachings as a collection of The Five Aggregates. For there to be a living being, there needs to be form, feelings, perceptions, volitional formations (choices/decisions), and consciousness. If these five things do not exist, it is not a living being.

Therefore, to eliminate The Cycle of Rebirth, a Practitioner needs to eliminate clinging to The Five Aggregates, which causes discontentedness.

The Buddha also explains that reflecting on The Three Universal Truths and how form, feelings, perceptions, volitional formations (choices/decisions), nor consciousness is permanent, contentedness, or the self. Instead, The Five Aggregates are impermanent, discontentedness, and non-self.