Girimananda sutta: www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an10/an10.060.than.html [6] "And what is the perception of dispassion? There is the case where a monk - having gone to the wilderness, to the shade of a tree, or to an empty building - reflects thus: 'This is peace, this is exquisite - the stilling of all activities, the relinquishment of all acquisitions, the ending of craving, dispassion, nibbana.' This is called the perception of dispassion. [7] "And what is the perception of cessation? There is the case where a monk - having gone to the wilderness, to the shade of a tree, or to an empty building - reflects thus: 'This is peace, this is exquisite - the stilling of all activities, the relinquishment of all acquisitions, the ending of craving, cessation, Nibbana.' This is called the perception of cessation...." www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.014.than.html "...As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One, "For a long time now, lord, I have understood the Dhamma taught by the Blessed One thus: 'Greed is a defilement of the mind; aversion is a defilement of the mind; delusion is a defilement of the mind.' Yet even though I understand the Dhamma taught by the Blessed One that greed is a defilement of the mind, aversion is a defilement of the mind, delusion is a defilement of the mind, there are still times when the mental quality of greed invades my mind and remains, when the mental quality of aversion... the mental quality of delusion invades my mind and remains. The thought occurs to me: What mental quality is unabandoned within me so that there are times when the mental quality of greed invades my mind and remains, when the mental quality of aversion... the mental quality of delusion invades my mind and remains?" "Mahanama, that very mental quality is what is unabandoned within you so that there are times when the mental quality of greed... the mental quality of aversion... the mental quality of delusion invades your mind and remains. For if that mental quality were abandoned in you, you would not live the household life and would not partake of sensuality. It's because that mental quality is not abandoned in you that you live the household life and partake of sensuality. "Even though a disciple of the noble ones has clearly seen as it actually is with right discernment that sensuality is of much stress, much despair, & greater drawbacks, still - if he has not attained a joy & pleasure apart from sensuality, apart from unskillful mental qualities, or something more peaceful than that- he can be tempted by sensuality. But when he has clearly seen as it actually is with right discernment that sensuality is of much stress, much despair, & greater drawbacks, and he has attained a joy & pleasure apart from sensuality, apart from unskillful mental qualities, or something more peaceful than that, he cannot be tempted by sensuality..."

The presence of craving is the presence of suffering.

Sutta mentioned at 4:25- "Mendicants, without giving up these six qualities you can't enter and remain in the first jhāna. What six? (1) Desire for sensual pleasures, (2) ill will, (3) dullness and drowsiness, (4) restlessness and remorse, and (5) doubt. (6) And the [peril] of sensual pleasures hasn't been truly seen clearly with right wisdom. ..." -AN 6.73, Paṭhamajjhānasutta

Thank you, Venerable Sirs.

Thank you. I'm grateful for your excellent teachings.

Value the relief. Protect it, guard it.

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Thank you

So, I guess, honestly experiencing the escape from 'death trap' is becoming the full time jhana (samadhi). Not like enjoying a part time sitting jhana.

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Freedom from desires is true freedom

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