Absolute freedom and happiness – our true essence. Вадим Сычевский

actions, experience, and accumulate experiences, further it is these experiences form our likes and dislikes that cause us to act again.

      Thus, the fourth Aggregate itself is the Formed Experience, and its function is to want or not to want, in other words, will, or intention. For example, if you have tasted a certain food, you liked it very much, and then you will want this food again. If after eating this food you had an upset stomach, then it is unlikely that you will want to eat it again. This is how the Formed Experience accumulates and then works, predetermining our subsequent actions.

      Just like Perceptions, Formed Experience is not something that is inherent in us from the beginning, it is just data that we accumulate as a result of our actions. The problem is that we identify ourselves with our past experiences. As a consequence, experience becomes the driving force that completely controls us. In other words, the Formed Experience becomes the desires and aversions that drive us.

      Of course, we can derive pleasure from the fulfilment of our desires, which are a manifestation, or function, of our fourth Aggregate. However, any objects of our desires are illusions: they either change and eventually disappear or simply bore us, because our consciousness, which creates all illusions of joy or suffering, is constantly changing, as a result of which satiety is bound to occur and the object ceases to satisfy us. If we are unable to satisfy our desires, to get what we want, the suffering of dissatisfaction arises. In this case, we begin to hate everything around us. Hatred and, consequently, pain also arise when we have experiences that are the opposite of our desires, that is, when we experience what we do not want to experience. I will talk more about the process of perception and discernment that forms all our suffering in the next chapter.