<p>Yes. Meditating on the five aggregates and seeing the three characteristics of impermanence, stress, and non-self, leads all the way to Arahatship. In the words of the Anattalakhana Sutta:</p>

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  <p>"What do you think, monks — Is form constant or inconstant?"</p>
  
  <p>"Inconstant, lord."</p>
  
  <p>"And is that which is inconstant easeful or stressful?"</p>
  
  <p>"Stressful, lord."</p>
  
  <p>"And is it fitting to regard what is inconstant, stressful, subject to
  change as: 'This is mine. This is my self. This is what I am'?"</p>
  
  <p>"No, lord."</p>
  
  <p>(Similarly with the other aggregates)</p>
  
  <p>"Seeing thus, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones grows
  disenchanted with form, disenchanted with feeling, disenchanted with
  perception, disenchanted with fabrications, disenchanted with
  consciousness. Disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate. Through
  dispassion, he is fully released. With full release, there is the
  knowledge, 'Fully released.' He discerns that 'Birth is ended, the
  holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this
  world.'"
  <a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.059.than.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.059.than.html</a></p>
</blockquote>

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Bakmoon
<p>You can get enlightened by getting rid of clinging and craving. I.e. when a contract or formation gives arise to a sensation be equanimous without reaction knowing its true nature. </p>

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Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena
<p>If I see the clinging and the stress going on at the five clinging aggregates can that propel me into stream entry?</p>

<p>Like say I see that clinging is going on at the five clinging aggregates and I see that it's causing stress can that take me to enlightenment or is another method needed like seeing the rise and fall of the aggregates, or practicing the silavant: <a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.122.than.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.122.than.html</a> sutta.</p>

<p>Is it just a good overall practice anyway?</p>

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Can you gain stream entry by focusing on the clinging and stress going on at the five clinging aggregates?
# Can you gain stream entry by focusing on the clinging and stress going on at the five clinging aggregates?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-03-13)

If I see the clinging and the stress going on at the five clinging aggregates can that propel me into stream entry?

Like say I see that clinging is going on at the five clinging aggregates and I see that it's causing stress can that take me to enlightenment or is another method needed like seeing the rise and fall of the aggregates, or practicing the silavant: <http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.122.than.html> sutta.

Is it just a good overall practice anyway?

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-03-16. Score: 1

Yes. Meditating on the five aggregates and seeing the three characteristics of impermanence, stress, and non-self, leads all the way to Arahatship. In the words of the Anattalakhana Sutta:

> "What do you think, monks — Is form constant or inconstant?"
>
> "Inconstant, lord."
>
> "And is that which is inconstant easeful or stressful?"
>
> "Stressful, lord."
>
> "And is it fitting to regard what is inconstant, stressful, subject to
> change as: 'This is mine. This is my self. This is what I am'?"
>
> "No, lord."
>
> (Similarly with the other aggregates)
>
> "Seeing thus, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones grows
> disenchanted with form, disenchanted with feeling, disenchanted with
> perception, disenchanted with fabrications, disenchanted with
> consciousness. Disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate. Through
> dispassion, he is fully released. With full release, there is the
> knowledge, 'Fully released.' He discerns that 'Birth is ended, the
> holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this
> world.'"
> <http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.059.than.html>


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### Answer by username_2 on 2015-04-16. Score: 0

You can get enlightened by getting rid of clinging and craving. I.e. when a contract or formation gives arise to a sensation be equanimous without reaction knowing its true nature.


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