Ask yourself: Could you suffer if things DON'T change? | Hillside Hermitage

...yet it's the CHANGE that you want when feeling unpleasant.

- Practicing accurate interrogation to reveal the universal reason that makes sensual engagement perilous and directly undermining of one's own well-being.

"That those recluses and ascetics who UNDERSTAND as it actually is the GRATIFICATION as gratification, the DANGER as danger, and the ESCAPE as escape in the case of sensual pleasures, can either themselves fully understand sensual pleasures or instruct another so that he can fully understand sensual pleasures - that is possible." --- MN 13, Mahadukkhakkhandha Sutta


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