How To Sustain Your Mindfulness 

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It hits me when you say; “You can’t smell the poison drink and not drink it, ,,,because you already there( in sensual perception).” 🥰 “ if you truly see dukkha, that means either you go forth to overcome it or you go mad” Amazing Maha Sangha!!🙏🙏🙏 Sadhu!!❤️😌

🙏Great talk. Thankyou

I didn’t consider that if you are not ready for it, that Dhamma will make you go mad and how important it is to be strong in Sila first. It makes sense though and if in future there are people open to suggestions re Dhamma, I will know where to point to if there are no Ariyas around to give the best advice. With deep respect for all the Dhamma produced by Hillside Hermitage. May more and more people be drawn towards the authentic teachings of the Buddha and seriously take on board the teachings. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

No matter whether right view has been established or not until become Anagami we will keep making different level of immotional feelings (Dukka). It is same for any living being including a person doing good activities to the society who doesnt want to experience this ultimate truth. But, there is one.exception. Once the right view is established, he knows definitely he is in the path which will become the eight fold path automatically. Day to day he feel sufferings are vanishing out as soon as they rise because the right view (which is instant impermanence in other words) will rectify his present moment immediately. There will bi no bad karma. This practice will be developed for the time being too. This is my view and what I am experiencing just now too. I do not want to declare I am in any of state because it is not a prerequisite. I think this is what our master thero is explaining too. Please continue this most valuable activity - real Dhamma dhana' to the world.

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Good one, thank you 🙏🏼

This is great advice for practicing keep mindfulness alive not to go back with craving because you have fully mindful with instant impermanence. Question: Was this the reason Visaka and Anatha Pindikassa couldnt achieve the ultimate until death? Please talk about a person if become Sothapanna but developing mindfulness the way to be next levels, not expecting but knowing he is in the flow.

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I was wondering if you can do an in-depth talk on the contemplation/mindfulness of Death? Since the Buddha so highly praised it, im sure it can cut straight to the point

So does this mean sotapanna don’t see the full danger of sensuality, hence why they can still engage in it? And when they do engage it, their mindfulness is lapsed? Only at anagami is sensuality seen truly as poison at all times ? Will a sotapanna be able to reach Anagami if they go back and forth between complete sense restraint (solo retreat) and living a modest life of sensuality otherwise? MN14: “Sensual pleasures give little gratification and much suffering and distress, and they are all the more full of drawbacks. Even though a noble disciple has clearly seen this with right wisdom, so long as they don’t achieve the rapture and bliss that are apart from sensual pleasures and unskillful qualities, or something even more peaceful than that, they might still return to sensual pleasures. But when they do achieve that rapture and bliss, or something more peaceful than that, they will not return to sensual pleasures.”

Sometimes Buddhism, sounds like intellectualism.

This is very practical, but isn't this teaching closing doors to metaphysical knowledge? If one insists on working to remove suffering, it becomes a kind of atomism of suffering and like all atomisms it is ad hoc system and hence not universal and highest knowledge. Suffering is only relevant to certain domains within life, whereas Truth is relevant to all domains ecerywhere. It's always bad news to start to restrict and define truth from a narrow and particular point of view, as if Truth were dependent on us, and not us who are dependant on Truth. To start into metaphysical knowledge one would have to take the Universal as a starting point, and not a special science like physics or a special method like reduction of suffering. All ethics - including Buddhist precepts - are like special sciences in the sense that they are all caught up in a particular point of view, whereas "metaphysical point of view" (or Universal point of view) is not a particular point of view, but without duality. Further, Buddhist ethics - like all ethics - are necessarily practical and humane, therefore also atomistic in the sense that it takes a being as a starting point, and further it takes a human as a starting point, and even further it takes a social human as a starting point. So it's not disinterested knowledge - and how can something so interested and humane really be higher knowledge at all? How could even a logician or a mathematician attain the knowledges of their respective sciences, if they were fully caught up in human affairs and in some less general point of view? How then can a Buddhist attain universal knowledge, if he is mentally caught up in the condition that is only relevant to beings and mostly relevant to social human beings? I am skeptical of these teachings. It seems that ethics only belong to social domain and suffering only belongs to the domain of conditioned beings - so neither domain is essential to overcoming ignorance and to the attainment of certain knowledge, and insisting on that leads to exclusivism that is very common to all savior religions and totally absent from purely metaphysical doctrines.