How Do You Investigate The Perception Aggregate?
• Read Investigate the Feeling Aggregate or other similar works on the subject. Feeling and perceptions are very closely linked. • Select a comfortable meditation posture. You can do this in day to day circumstances, but this one is harder to see as its usually buried under all the other feelings and senses. • Examine whatever feelings arise. Try to see the process of “recognition” or “awareness” or any words that mean knowing that a feeling has happened. • Study the recognition of those feelings – how, where, when and why. The aim of the game is to see the micro-processes in action. • Think about this. Feeling requires contact of the body (nerve endings etc) and the sense object (such as tension, body chemicals, sound, sight, taste etc), if there is no perception of the contact or feeling, the mind doesn’t recognize either and feeling just doesn’t register. • Look for the distinction or separation as well as the link connection between feelings and what happens afterwards in the mind.
