Richard Zen:
Yeah I've been avoiding older sources and have been sticking to general books (though good ones). I suppose if one is patient you can go though these aggregates one at a time but to go through stream-entry all of the aggregates have to FEEL empty to really say you've gotten that far.
I'm going with a staged approach to this list...trying to map to the MCTB 1-4 paths. Depending how you define stream entry it
could be all of them of course.
Vimuttimagga list from page 234
FOUR PRIMARIES
Earth
Water
Fire
Wind
DERIVED MATERIAL QUALITIES
Eye
Ear
Nose
Tongue
Body
Matter as sense-object
Sound as sense-object
Odour as sense-object
Taste as sense-object
Femininity
Masculinity
Life-principle
Body-intimation
Speech-intimation
element of space
buoyancy of matter
impressibility of matter
adaptibility of matter
integration of matter
Continuity of matter
Decay of matter
Impermanency of matter
solid food
The basis of the material element
The material quality of torpor
They subcatagorize pretty good. I'm going to work them into the flowchart in my other post.
SkandasAt least some of them. The ones I consider pragmatic (or can understand and think have meaning).