Which pleasures should you worry about...
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- How to differentiate between different types of pleasures, and which ones are harmful and which ones not as much.
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very helpful. thanks.
Thanks Bhante
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Just received 3 copies of The Only Way to Jhana. Handed my christian father a copy in case he wanted to give it a try. Read half of the blurb and handed it back lol. Ah well, I tried. Don’t like to force anyone
"Isn't dhamma supposed to free me from suffering? But I suffer more. -Well yes, you need to suffer more initially".
Unfortunately many people turn to Buddhism when they are already experiencing a high degree of dukkha. Don't sit and wait till that point comes. Be prepared in advance.
What do I do when the desire to scratch is bloomin unbearable beyond compare?
Try Theinngu 32 ..every sitting is adhitthana and they watch you …it does work!
But relaxation is important.
There is pressure and then there is you succumbing to the pressure. We are not responsible for the pressure but we're definitely responsible for giving in to the pressure. Sense restraint and virtue helps creating the distance between the two but to the extent you are still giving value to the gratification of your senses is the extent of the "unbearableness" of your itch. If you are a quite the sense addict, such as myself, it will be quite challenging and you'll most likely fail on different occasions and give in. Brush it off, pick yourself up with determination to do better next time and continue the practice. Wish you the best on your journey, friend.
If you fail, try again.
Fail again - try again.
Fail again - try again.
@@UstogljenaKrofna yes good advice …best wishes from another sense addict!
First time I got this. It's simple - and probably, therefore, true - and not, apparently, as I had initially believed, a Puritanical hang-up about inevitable biological function the natural expression of which might be healthier than its supression (an impure impulse in itself). Why, though, this dichotomy of good and evil? Why does sensual pleasure receive so much focus when the sources of distraction, confusion and suffering are sundry and widespread? Can we accept both pleasure and it's limitations, rather than rejecting it, and in this way find a middle way - perhaps the only way - to integration and peace? Perhaps all is not as simple as I had initially supposed. I keep hoping for a little more in these talks, and can sometimes feel a little disempowered and wanting and then wonder what that might mean. Am I the problem? Or is it something else? Fortunately, perhaps, though I'm far from sure, I feel too much certainty, is often not an option available to me.
Hi, I’d really recommend the work of Rob Burbea if you haven’t come across him, I believe he offers a much more nuanced view of practice and the path while still remaining very rigorous. He gave three talks (Questioning Awakening, Buddhism Beyond Modernism, and In Praise of Restlessness), where he examines the unconscious ontological, epistemological and cosmological assumptions that many Buddhist schools hold. I feel like it really helped me understand why I’ve felt that sutta literalists like Nyanamoli feel a bit ‘off’, in their overly religious view of Buddhism and lack of critical interrogation of their relationship to the suttas. Hope this helps!
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Thank you very much for your kind and very welcome comments and suggestions. I have had a glimpse in the direction you suggest and I've found an open door - I aim to explore further in due course.
Sometimes the most subtle and the most obvious make of thinking a kind of polka pattern where binaries can seem interchangeable!
In Palestine everyone's a mendicant and householders camp out indoors.
Only the most whole become monks; only the most broken go home (or elsewhere or nowhere).
These are a few examples.
Many things get many names but jumping ship - in itself - is not Nibbana. This isn't polka at all!
What can be said isn't worth saying and what is worth saying can't be said.
Here's a few lines about this "geometry of contradiction" for you & hopefully an aesthetic response isn't something you will feel compelled to resist as a form of worldling impudence!
What if you slept?
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven
and there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?
Ah, what then?
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
@@Acephale_acolyte I listened to Praise of Restlessness, and at one point he questioned those who go back to learn from the pali canon, calling it 'bizarre' behavior- comparing it to scientists going back to copernicus to learn science. So it should be known that he doesn't take the historical Buddha as an authority on Dhamma.
My personal feeling from listening to him is that he has some interesting intuitions and poetic way of seeing things but he doesn't really take our existential situation as seriously as for example the Buddha did. However, I have only listened to a few talks of his. But thats my feeling based on what I've heard
I mean, to be a stream winner, or even a once-returner, one need not abandon sensual pleasures. It's a gradual path. The Suttas are clear about that. This Bhikkhu Nyanamoli's advice seems to be more suitable for super advanced practitioners that want to go the full way, down to the last few stages of Awakening. It's important that we keep the high standard as an ideal while also acknowledging that we might not be ready to achieve it yet. Maybe not even in this lifetime.
Gratitude is important. If you are at a stage of your journey where sensual pleasures are accessible, and spiritual pleasures aren't developed enough to replace them, accept that with gratitude. Yay! At least you have something to rejoice in.
That would be my advice.