A brief talk on the nature of intentions, and learning how to question oneself in order to develop clarity towards presently enduring feelings, perception and intentions. ----------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to gift your support of life at the Hillside you would be very welcome to do so by donating at: http://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us For other forms of Dhamma Teachings see: http://www.hillsidehermitage.org/teachings ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KoITf0utnI

...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 ----------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to gift your support to life at the Hillside you would be very welcome to do so by donating at: http://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us For other forms of Dhamma Teachings see: http://www.hillsidehermitage.org/teachings For the Buddhist Phenomenology essays see: http://www.hillsidehermitage.org/teachings/writings/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fk5GENUbLQ

A talk on: - What mindfulness of the body really means - How ONLY the knowledge of the Right order develops the Right samadhi. - Overcoming the (mis)conceivings - Internal sense organs/body - Pride/Conceit ___________________________________ Relevant Suttas for the talk: -MN 1 - Mūlapariyāya Sutta for understanding the nature of "conceiving" or "perverting the order". ___________ -SN 35.197 "...The empty village' stands for the six internal sense media. If a wise, competent, intelligent person examines them from the point of view of the eye, they appear abandoned, void, & empty. If he examines them from the point of view of the ear... the nose... the tongue... the body... the intellect, they appear abandoned, void, & empty..." ___________ -THAG 6.9. Jenta, I was drunk with the pride of birth and wealth and authority. I wandered about intoxicated with my own gorgeous body. No-one was my equal or my better—or so I thought. I was such an arrogant fool, stuck up, waving my own flag. I never paid homage to anyone: not even my mother or father, nor others esteemed as respectable. I was stiff with pride, lacking regard for others. When I saw the foremost leader, the most excellent of charioteers, shining like the sun, at the fore of the mendicant Saṅgha, I discarded conceit and vanity, and, with a clear and confident heart, I bowed down with my head to the most excellent of all beings. The conceit of superiority and the conceit of inferiority have been given up and eradicated. The conceit “I am” is cut off, and every kind of conceit is destroyed." ____________ -SN 35.12 Lokakāmaguṇavagga ____________ -SN 35.108. I Am Superior “Bhikkhus, when what exists, by assuming what, by adhering to what, does the thought occur: ‘I am superior’ or ‘I am equal’ or ‘I am inferior’?” ….” “....When there is the eye, bhikkhus, by assuming the eye, by adhering to(that assumption of) the eye, the thought occurs: ‘I am superior’ or ‘I am equal’ or ‘I am inferior.’ When there is the ear, nose, tongue, body … When there is the mind, by assuming the mind, by adhering to (that assumption)of the mind, the thought occurs: ‘I am superior’ or ‘I am equal’ or ‘I am inferior.’ ____________________________________ If you wish to gift your support to life at the Hillside you can do so by donating at: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us ____________________________________ For other forms of Dhamma Teachings see: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/teachings ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB9dQFtXMKs

Clarifying some common misconception about what it takes to become a sotapanna and how can a lay person do it. For a new essay by Bhikkhu Anigha also see: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/what-the-jhanas-actually-are/ ____________________________________ If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2AWxZnxeYk