- Why is it hard to keep the precepts
- Helpful community vs unhelpful community
- Obsessing over minor details
- Stop trying to get rid of discomfort of the doubt
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- How much do you have to give up
- Different degrees of relinquishment
- Two types of thoughts for jhana
- Where does the lack of safety come from
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On various topics based around Susima Sutta SN 12.70. With Venerable Akincano.
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- What are the characteristics of thought?
- Do you have a say in HOW even the most personal thoughts APPEAR to you?
- Kasina meditation practice
- Satipatthana meditation and Dhammanupassana
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Why does your own mind not listen to you?
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The latest Dhamma discussion from Hillside Hermitage, on the nature of Nibbana, Right speech, benefits of virtuous behaviour. It also addresses the need for self-transparency and how no to resort to a group mentality as a way out of accepting personal responsibility for one's own actions.
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Why is it better to lean towards asceticism and saying "no" to one's desires?
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...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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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
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Relevant Suttas for the talk:
-MN 1 - Mūlapariyāya Sutta for understanding the nature of "conceiving" or "perverting the order".
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-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..."
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-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."
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-SN 35.12 Lokakāmaguṇavagga
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-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’?”
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“....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.’
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