How craving is released?
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 12:10 am
Hello everyone!:
Once craving arises, how do we release it?.
many thanks.
Once craving arises, how do we release it?.
many thanks.
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Repeated reflection is how one gets to know the mind, which is the beginning of understanding how to apply remedies as well as prevent infection, to say nothing of developing calm and insight.MN 61 wrote:“What do you think, Rāhula? What is the purpose of a mirror?”
“For the purpose of reflection, venerable sir.”
“So too, Rāhula, an action with the body should be done after repeated reflection; an action by speech should be done after repeated reflection; an action by mind should be done after repeated reflection.
...Rāhula, you should train thus: ‘We will purify our bodily action, our verbal action, and our mental action by repeatedly reflecting upon them.’
First: don't think about it- that already is clinging.2600htz wrote:Hello everyone! Once craving arises, how do we release it?
many thanks.
This doesn't answer the question. Assume the questioner has got to a full understanding of his craving, through repeated reflection. How, then, does he release that craving? Or does gaining such "full understanding", through mindfulness, lead automatically to release?daverupa wrote: Repeated reflection is how one gets to know the mind, which is the beginning of understanding how to apply remedies...
Need this be paradoxical? If we are properly mindful of the "craving to be free from craving" wouldn't that dissipate the craving, perhaps turning it into Right Intention?pegembara wrote: Then there arise the paradoxical craving/desire to be free from craving.
How does one attend appropriately?SarathW wrote:§ 51. ... When a monk attends inappropriately, unarisen effluents arise, and arisen effluents increase. When a monk attends appropriately, unarisen effluents do not arise, and arisen effluents are abandoned.
How doe one "see" appropriately?SarathW wrote:There are effluents that are to be abandoned by seeing,...
How do you restrain, use, tolerate, avoid, destroy and develop appropriately? Any examples?SarathW wrote: ... those that are to be abandoned by restraining, those that are to be abandoned by using, those that are to be abandoned by tolerating, those that are to be abandoned by avoiding, those that are to be abandoned by destroying, and those that are to be abandoned by developing.
Full understanding means knowing how unarisen aspects arise, how arisen aspects cease, and so forth, so the suggestion that a full understanding exists alongside confusion about the remedy doesn't line up.mal4mac wrote:This doesn't answer the question. Assume the questioner has got to a full understanding of his craving, through repeated reflection. How, then, does he release that craving? Or does gaining such "full understanding", through mindfulness, lead automatically to release?daverupa wrote: Repeated reflection is how one gets to know the mind, which is the beginning of understanding how to apply remedies...