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The wellbeing of our Sangha is of utmost importance to us and the dear rescue dogs. I hope you all stay safe and well. May all beings be well and happy.

restraint and endurance are prerequisites to avoid acring out. But "You need wisdom to fullfill not acting out when pressured " Learn to live around the bait. That's a revealing eyeopener. Will take that up as my core Leitmotiv for practice from now on. Thank you Bhante 🙏🙏🙏 Sadhux3!

Having been taught this Sutta some years ago with my teachers at Theinngu 32 in Myanmar, revisiting it here is wonderful and see there is a different level of understanding than before..but clearly much work to be done. Thank you immensely for the amazing teachings you have shared. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Thank you Venerables... so profound 🙏🙏🙏

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It seems that most philosophies and religions stay on this shore and somehow justify staying here, trying to build something here: a family tree or a legacy in philosophy.

Venerable Ajahn 🙏 Are there "save" delights? Like Samadhi, or Dhamma studying? Is overcoming, abandoning, suppressing,... "delight" is the path to Anagami? Thank you 🙏😑🙇‍♂️

"And how, friend, does one guard the sense-doors? In this a monk seeing an object with the eye, does not seize hold of either its general appearance or its details. Because anyone dwelling with the eye-faculty uncontrolled could be overwhelmed by cupidity and dejection, evil and unwholesome states of mind, therefore he practices to control the eye-faculty, guards it and gains control over it. So one guards the sense-doors. [Similarly with ear, nose, tongue, body (touch), mind] Hey bhante. I'm not exactly sure on what it means by 'seize hold,' could you please elaborate? Thanks.

Dear Ajahn! Regarding delight and passion (nandīrāga) spoken of in the Sutta: It is said in the second noble truth that craving (taṇhā) is accompanied by delight and passion (nandīrāgasahagatā). Could one say that craving is the fundamental attitude of valuing pleasure (and hence resisting pain) that is based on not seeing the danger in this valuing, which will thus inevitably be accompanied by delight and passion for something perceived as alluring (which is only perceived as such because it's actual danger is not recognized)?

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Bhante, may I ask if the effort to stop indulging in pleasure can be usefully broken down into its various elements (food, sex, pride, attachment to others, and so on) in order to prioritize them so as not to feel overwhelmed by fighting all those enemies at the same time, or does this approach actually amounts to stop feeding the beast with the right hand while still feeding it with the left hand? Which one is true? Thank you.

@Hillside Hermitage, I don't understand how Sottapanna has limited rebirths? What if they are reborn in a realm without Dhamma, how are they then protected from breaking the 5 precepts?🙏

Hello Bhantes, at the end of your talk you mention that some monks couldn’t handle the contemplation of death. Which sutta are you referring to? SN54.9 and Vin III 68 deal with a similar problem but it results from the contemplation on unattractiveness. Do you mean this too?

26:15 why we get depressed acknowledge this truth?

How does one motivate themselves with the ever present threat of death when a kind of death (the self) is the goal? Is this where rebirth comes into play?