The Buddhist Teachings on the Gratification, Danger and Escape from the Mind’s Attachment to Sense Experience. We are constantly touched by sense experience and usually react in predictable ways by grasping what is perceived as pleasant, ignoring what is seen as neutral, and being averse to what appears to be unpleasant. The Buddha emphasized the limitations of sense experience as a place for lasting happiness. In this course we will carefully examine our actual experience of gratification, the actual danger that arises with attachment to sense experience, and the actual escape from these dangers through the realization of the heart free from grasping.
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Study Resources
- Renunciation: The Highest Happiness by Sister Siripanna
- What is Nibbida? (Not finding any satisfaction!) BY ANDREW OLENDZKI, Lions Roar, September 1, 2003
- Article on the Buddha’s teachings as a Gradual Training
- Buddha’s discourse (sutta MN 13) The Great Mass of Stress
- Buddhist Sexual Ethics by Winton Higgins with a Rejoinder by Ajahn Brahmavamso and Ajahn Nanadhammo
- Drawbacks (The Buddha’s teachings on the drawbacks of sensuality), translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
- Upadana Sutta: Clinging translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
- Mind Like Fire Unbound Chapter III ‘Forty cartloads of timber.’ by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
- Worldly Happiness / Buddhist Happiness: What the Buddha really taught by Mu Soeng, Parabola, April 29, 2016
- Sallatha Sutta: The Arrow (The Dart), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
- Five Remembrances
- The Evolution of Happiness: On the Buddha’s steps to Nirvana By Joseph Goldstein Tricycle FALL 2005
- Touching Enlightenment: Reggie Ray takes on the modern crisis of disembodiment. Tricycle, SPRING 2006
- What You Take Home With You By Ajahn Sucitto
Study Resources by Week
Week 1 & 2
- Dhamma – A Gradual Training by Access to Insight
- Buddha’s discourse (sutta MN 13) The Great Mass of Stress
- Buddhist Sexual Ethics by Winton Higgins with a Rejoinder by Ajahn Brahmavamso, Ajahn Nanadhammo
- Worldly Happiness / Buddhist Happiness: What the Buddha really taught by Mu Soeng, Parabola
- Sallatha Sutta: The Arrow (The Dart), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Week 3
- Drawbacks (The Buddha’s teachings on the drawbacks of sensuality), Translated By Thanissaro Bikkhu
- Sallatha Sutta: The Arrow (The Dart), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
- Five Remembrances
- Touching Enlightenment: Reggie Ray takes on the modern crisis of disembodiment
Week 4
- The Evolution of Happiness: On the Buddha’s steps to Nirvana by Joseph Goldstein
- Mind Like Fire Unbound Chapter III ‘Forty cartloads of timber.’ by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
- What You Take Home With You by Ajahn Sucitto
Week 6
