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Desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, the aggregate (the body), intelligence, fortitude the field has thus been briefly described with its modifications.

desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, the bodily aggregate, awareness and steadfastness: this, in brief, is the field together with its changes.

The list of what belongs to the field concludes with states that feel most personal: desire and aversion, pleasure and pain, the body as an organised whole, cetanā, here meaning the vital awareness of a living organism, and dhṛti, the power to hold steady. These, too, are part of the field with its modifications. The point is radical. Even our likes, dislikes and feelings, which seem to be the very core of who we are, are classed with the body as things that are known and that change. The knower is something other than all of them.