Hillside Hermitage Podcast

• Pleasant vs. unpleasant path
• Why the puthujjana isn't on the path and how their efforts should be directed
• Not confusing management for the actual uprooting of suffering
• The right and wrong way to practice asubha (non-beautiful)

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• What is meant by "being" and "non-being", and what is the gratification, danger and escape in the case of these two views? (MN 11)
• The gradual abandonment of craving

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Sutta study of SN 45.24 and AN 5.57 where the Buddha explains how whether for a householder or for one gone forth, the path to the Right view and the objects of reflections are the same.

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• Peace as a result of virtue vs peace of the right view
• What, apart from virtue and sense restraint is required for right view?
• How to keep the practice alive

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Why our desire for control leads to discomfort, why anxiety feels more unbearable than pain, and how understanding it can transform it into liberation. Instead of being weighed down by uncertainty, the same lack of safety can be unburdened, weightless, and free.

(attachments and anxiety, philosophy of attachment, anxiety vs pain, control and suffering, weightless mind)

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The difference between the background lived body and the body you actively attend to, how dependence on sense objects shapes your threshold of being, and where the assumption of self takes root.

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Many approach the practice thinking that it means hours of meditation or chasing special experiences. But true Dhamma practice is a lot simpler—and far more profound.

• Why “meditation” in the modern sense isn’t the core of practice
• How to develop clarity by taking responsibility for your actions
• Why novelty and spiritual experiences are distractions
• How to overcome the pressure of tradition and the sense of “duty” in Buddhist practice

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Sutta study - AN 10.62 — Taṇhā Sutta (The Discourse on Craving)

• Why is there no first point of craving manifested?
• Undoing everything, here-and-now, that prevents you from the knowledge-and-liberation
• Nature of yoniso manasikara and practical examples of how to develop it

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Is there a place for devotion and veneration in the Right practice?

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Advice to Rahula, the Buddha's son, on how to practice anapanasati and various other ways of purification from the defilements.

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