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A recap of an old discussion on how to develop calm within the discomfort of right endurance through knowing the breath. Also, a description of the fundamental discomfort of the senses and why one acts out of lust.
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Which pleasures should you worry about...
How to differentiate between different types of pleasures, and which ones are harmful and which ones not as much.
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Don't open Mara's doors
An actual TRAINING in virtue and sense restraint, as opposed to just blindly adhering to it.
Dealing with the pressures of an irrational mind.
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Managing Your Suffering Is A Trap
A recap of one of our old videos, describing the how not to fall into a trap of managing your suffering at the expense of uprooting the problem of it.
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Can a Layperson Practice the Actual Dhamma?
Is there a way that's according to the Suttas whereby a lay person can actually practice successfully towards the stream-entry or higher?
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The books mentioned in the video discuss the historical differences between the Suttas and the later Commentaries and Abhidhammas, the original jhana practice taught by the Buddha, and later yogic-style concentration practices:
"Early Buddhist Meditation: The Four Jhanas as the Actualization of Insight" by Keren Arbel
"Reexamining Jhana: Towards a Critical Reconstruction of Early Buddhist Soteriology" by Grzegorz Polak (https://www.academia.edu/34093551/Reexamining_Jhana_Towards_a_Critical_Reconstruction_of_Early_Buddhist_Soteriology)
"Nikaya Buddhism and Early Chan: A Different Meditative Paradigm" by Grzegorz Polak
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@14:48 - A mistake, it wasn't Mahasi's teacher, but the teacher of Ledi Sayadaw called Hpo Hlaing.
For further reading of some works that unintentionally reveal implicit esoteric, yogic, and Abhidhammic views that underlie modern Theravada, see:
"Kate Crosby - Esoteric Theravada: The Story of the Forgotten Meditation Tradition of Southeast Asia"
"Kamala Tiyavanich - Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth Century Thailand"
"P.L. Dhar - Thai Forest Tradition and Advaita-Vedanta"
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