Exploring Self-Mortification and Sensual Indulgence The Buddha’s First Teaching หน้า 231
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This text discusses the concepts of self-mortification and sensual indulgence. It elaborates on the causes and consequences of self-mortification, which often leads to lamentation and spiritual harm. Various metaphors illustrate the pitfalls of trust and attachment to sense pleasures. The document also addresses desire and craving as significant factors in human suffering and the path toward liberation. Specific practices, their fruitlessness, and their unprofitable nature are examined, along with the broader implications of sensual restraint in achieving Nirvana. Through various examples and metaphors, it provides a rich analysis of the detrimental effects of attachment to sensual pleasures, alongside the struggle against materialism and the journey towards spiritual Enlightenment.

หัวข้อประเด็น

-self-mortification
-sensual indulgence
-consequences of craving
-spiritual practices
-path to liberation
-impacts of desire on suffering

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self-mortification 19, 27, 35-7, 103, causes lamentation 32; causes one 105, 194-5: dominates contemporainary spiritual thought 194-5; examples of practice 35; fruitless 19; {metaphors, grasshopper leaping into a fire 36, jumping into a fire 36, jumping over a cliff 36, poisonous snake mistaken for a rope 36, stale excrement mistaken for medicine 36, sugar-cane juice with poison 36, trusting an enemy 36-7, vengeful ogre 36}; practices 19; the harm of 194; unprofitable 35 selfishness, arising from materialism 81 sense: consciousness 96, 97; contact 96, 97-8; craving 78, 96, 99, 200-1; discursive-thought 96, 100; feeling 96, 98; objects 96, 97; organs 59, 96, 97; thought-conception 96, 99-100; volition 96, 98-9 sense pleasure, attachment to (see sensual indulgence) sense pleasure: indulgence in 194; forgone to attain liberation 91-2; craving for 78; grasping for 40, 88, 137; refuge from 34 sense-sphere [of existence] 78, 85 sensory: process, breeding ground for craving 95; registration 96, 98, 125, 134, 143 sensual delight and pleasure, objects of, 95-100 sensual indulgence, 18, 27-35, 103, 105, 194: cause rebirth in hell 34; causes anxiety 32; causes death or maiming in battle 34; causes disappointment 32; causes fighting 33; causes lamentation 32; causes one to destroy health 32; causes sorrow 33; causes stealing and subsequent punishment of robbers 34; causes wars 33; harm of 194; {metaphors, abandoned corpse 28, cemetery of rotting corpses 29, child playing with a top 29, crow swept out to sea on an elephant carcasse 31, denizens of hell blundering into hell 30, discarded rice husks 29, dog chewing bone 28, eating poisonous fruit 29, enjoyable dream 28, excrement 29, latrine 29, licking honey from a razor blade 30, man falling in love with an ogress 31, pig wallowing in dung 28, playing with a sharp weapon 29, red-hot embers 28, road through dangerous territory 30, toilet rinsings 29-30} sensual restraint, allows attainment of Nirvana 34 sexuality: intention to remove oneself from 151, {example of Maha Janaka, 151-2}; mind-side- 50, 129; object-side 50, 129; preoccupation with 142; two sorts 50; transcending 124 sentimentality, overcoming 120 separation from loved ones and treasured things, suffering of 47, 58, 72, 199 sister, wife like a 155 sixteen tasks, of Phramonkolthepmuni 207 skin 59, 65 slave: wife like a 156; dealing in 163 slighted, feeling, as suffering 47, 58, 70-1, 124, 199
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