"Take the heart sutra, a key passage of Buddhist teachings: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, while contemplating profoundly the Prajna Paramita, Realised that the Five Skandhas are empty, and thus he was able to overcome all suffering. The thesis is that one of the Buddha's disciples, Avalokitesvara, realises that to overcome suffering he must recognise that the five skandhas things that make up the human experience are empty."
"The skandhas are: Form, all the things our sensory organs can smell, taste, see, feel and hear. Feelings that arise when we perceive things. Perception is the lens through which we label things and assign value or worth like bananas are delicious or this article is boring. Mental forces, or volition, are the actions and reactions to things and the feelings and perceptions that come from them."
Generative AI developments such as OpenAI's Sora 2 heighten challenges to a shared objective reality against a backdrop of political polarisation. Buddhist thought treats reality with scepticism by framing human experience as the aggregation of the Five Skandhas. Avalokitesvara's realisation that the skandhas are empty is presented as the means to overcome suffering. The skandhas comprise form (sensory input), feelings, perception (the labels and values assigned to experience), mental formations or volition, and consciousness as the aggregate of the others. Sensory impressions can deceive, as shown by an exercise that reveals a photograph of butter mistaken for ice cream.
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