The Five Aggregates of Mind and Matter

Buddhism says that a being is an illusion created by a complex of malminded matter which does not ultimately exist as it appears in the course of ordinary experience. The elements of mind and matter or mentality and materiality are nothing but a rapidly changing process of physical and mental factors known in Buddhism as the five aggregates or heaps. There is no permanent soul within or among these aggregates merely the mental and physical processes themselves so long as the compulsory cycle of birth and death continues suffering will unavoidably arise to end suffering then it is necessary for being to escape from this cycle. In order to understand how this might be achieved what is meant by a being must first be discussed the empirical