The Hindrances
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The Five Nīvaraṇa.
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The Buddha compares the five hindrances to a bowl of water in various conditions.
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When your harp’s strings were tuned too tight, was it resonant and playable?
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… near Kallavāḷamutta Village, Venerable Mahāmoggallāna was nodding off while meditating…
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Bhikkhus, when the mind becomes excited, it is timely to develop the enlightenment factor of tranquillity…
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The eye is yours, Evil One, forms are yours, eye-contact and its base of consciousness are yours; but, Evil One, where there is no eye, no forms, no eye-contact and its base of consciousness—there is no place for you there
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That’s how it is for one who is not without passion for fabrications.
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Monks, I do not see a single thing that gives rise to sense desire like the feature of attractiveness.
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Take a case where a mendicant focuses on sensual pleasures, but their mind isn’t eager, confident, settled, and decided about them. But when they focus on renunciation, their mind is eager, confident, settled, and decided about it. Their mind is in a good state…
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The river would keep flowing swiftly for a long way, carrying all before it.
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When you get angry at an angry person
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Having undertaken them, train in the training rules. When you have done so, what further should be done?
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Greed is that one thing, bhikkhus. Abandon that and I guarantee you non-return.
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Iron is a corruption of gold, corrupted by which gold is neither malleable nor wieldy nor radiant but brittle and not properly fit for work.
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Bhikkhus, there are huge trees with tiny seeds and huge bodies, encirclers of other trees, and the trees which they encircle become bent, twisted, and split.
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… he suffered painful, sharp, severe, and acute feelings, which he endured unbothered, with mindfulness and awareness.
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If you were then to use the sharp weapon of intelligence to cut and break apart this iron you would find that nothing, not even the subtlemost particle, remains. This is the meaning of ‘form is emptiness.’ … Not seeking to gain [pleasure] and avoid [pain] because neither is genuinely real, you will feel equanimity
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