Ask yourself: Could you suffer if things DON'T change? | Hillside Hermitage
...yet it's the CHANGE that you want when feeling unpleasant.
- Practicing accurate interrogation to reveal the universal reason that makes sensual engagement perilous and directly undermining of one's own well-being.
"That those recluses and ascetics who UNDERSTAND as it actually is the GRATIFICATION as gratification, the DANGER as danger, and the ESCAPE as escape in the case of sensual pleasures, can either themselves fully understand sensual pleasures or instruct another so that he can fully understand sensual pleasures - that is possible." --- MN 13, Mahadukkhakkhandha Sutta
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We tried a slightly different format here, video with an occasional voiceover for additional points and clarification.
- Famous Kalama Sutta
- Importance on not relying on external authority
- Recognizing the position of your own bias
- And above all - applying yourself correctly by enduring things on the right level.
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The characteristics of sotapatti in more relatable terms.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9vD7cpM0cw
- How to use desire to end all desires
- Types of desire
- Difference between desire (chanda) and craving (tanha)
- What is tanha
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No Dhamma talk, just scenes of quiet forest simplicity...
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A question read out by Ven. Thaniyo on whether it is possible to satisfy all your desires. The answer lies in full understanding of what "satisfaction" actually is in the first place.
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The practice of overcoming attachments to things, and how the true non-ownership can be discerned only WITHIN the existing mistake of ownership (of oneself and one's senses and everything that can be experienced through them). This can only be done through the right type of acknowledgment and self-responsibility.
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-"Technique" for overcoming the five hindrances
- Entering jhana on account of verbal thinking and pondering
- Diligence as the supreme factor that lead to Awakening
- How not to get distracted by your own thinking
- How not to fall from the practice
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