Hillside Hermitage Podcast
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Hillside Hermitage PodcastMar 26, 2024
The Safety of Jhāna
What is the pleasure of jhāna? If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage monks and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/
Unwelcoming of the Hindrances
What does it mean to be "established in virtue" as the Suttas often say.
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Asking the Right Questions
Spending time contemplating things that are relevant to suffering and your freedom from it.
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The Un-lapsing of Your Self Restraint - by Sister Medhini
How to prevent yourself from acting out of unwholesome mental states over and over again.
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Unconcentrate Yourself
A brief reminder on understanding the difference between managing of suffering as opposed to uprooting it.
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Is Your Virtue Your Excuse?
Can just virtue be enough for developing of wisdom and understanding?
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Overcoming Past Traumas
The root of all traumas and where they end.
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Right Time for Seclusion - by Thaniyo Thero
How to prepare yourself for solitude and seclusion.
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Problem of Instant Gratification
Patience and inspiration for skillful things that take time to develop.
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Seeking Your Own Welfare - by Sister Medhini
Discerning what is truly beneficial for oneself. If you wish to support the monks of the Hillside and this channel you can do so by donating at: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us For other forms of Dhamma Teachings see: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/teachings
Mind is the maker of all things
Mind precedes all phenomena, mind is their leader and their maker. If one speaks or acts with a corrupt mind, suffering follows from that, as a wheel follows the ox's hoof. - Dhammapada 1
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SUTTA STUDY - "All the Defilements" MN 2 - by Nyanamoli Thero
Looking closely into the meaning of "yoniso manasikara" and its importance for the Right view. (Suttas referenced in this talk: MN 43, SN 46.51, AN 1.66-67, AN 1.11-12, AN 6.63, SN 35.240)
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Life and Death
Contemplation of death, done rightly.
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The Most Acute Description of the Right View
Looking at the core of Stream-entry and how is a sotapanna unable to suffer amidst suffering.
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SUTTA STUDY - "The Root of All Things" MN 1 - by Nyanamoli Thero
New series on our channel that will go through studying the MEANING of a selected number of suttas from the Majjhima Nikaya. For the PDF of the Sutta please visit here
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Do you have faith?
What does it mean to have "faith" in the Teaching? If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/
Laying Down of the Burden - by Thaniyo Thero
How to free yourself from the burden of your own existence. If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/
When Your Mind Can Turn Against You - by Nyanamoli Thero
Why does your own mind not listen to you? If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage monks and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/
Mindfulness of the Elements
What is the most practical way of discerning "elements" that the Suttas talk about. If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/
Stream Entry for Laypeople - by Bhikkhu Anīgha
Clarifying some common misconception about what it takes to become a sotapanna and how can a lay person do it.
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Help Parents or Ordain?
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Abortion of Samsara
How to overcome or at least diminish the consequences of one's unskillful actions... If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/
Can you say what you mean?
Don't think you understood something until you can explain it in simple terms. If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage monks and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/
The Mind Whisperer
What differentiates an arahant or even a sotapanna from the puthujjana.
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The three intoxications - by Sister Medhini
What are the three intoxications the Buddha talks about and why did he call them "intoxications"? ____________________________________ If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/
Peaceful Death
Do you do things differently if you have a limited time left?
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Overcoming the Sexual Urge
How to take the practice of "NoFap" even further until the desire for satisfying body's sexual cravings is fully eradicated.
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The Story of Angulimala
How did someone like Aṅgulimāla, a mass murderer and an evil man, end up becoming a completely liberated arahant? ____________________________________ If you wish to support the monks of the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/
Suffering is where things are felt
- Sense of subjectivity and "I am" - Understanding is measured by freedom from suffering - Practical examples of not acting out of unwholesome - How to develop the Right criteria - Overcoming hindrances ____________________________________ If you wish to support our work and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/
Endlessness of Desires
- Eternal repetition - Fuel of Samsara - Cause of it all - Desire to end the desires ____________________________________ If you wish to support the monks of the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/
Forsaking the Pleasure of "Meditation"
- Allowing the pressure to arise - Meditating with sensuality - Attending to the hindrances rightly - Thoughts are the symptoms of your mental state - Sila, samadhi and panna are united - How wrong sila intensifies your views ____________________________________ If you wish to support the monks of the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/
Seeing Through the Hindrances Instead of Denying Them
- Always under pressure - Discovering the Five Hindrances - What does "seeing things on the right level" mean? - The hindrances cannot be the objects of your experience - Thoughts are real as thoughts - Sensuality begins and ends with thoughts - See THROUGH the hindrances, instead of trying to get rid of them - Not being pressured while the pressure remains - Abandon craving through craving - What to do after you go beyond the pressure ____________________________________ If you wish to support the monks of the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/
Self reliance, Jhana and the five precepts
- How to become Self-reliant - Jhana and the Right view - How to know if you are acting out of desire - Benefits of doubt - The Eight precepts can be the Five with celibacy
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Necessary Condition for Sotapatti
- Two factors of Sotapatti - What you might be missing? - Attitude of yoniso manasikara - Seeing things as phenomena - Practice of putting your experience as a whole "in brackets" - When things feel "less real" - How Yoniso Manasikara leads to seeing the "sign of your mind" (cittanimitta) - "Less real" is real as such ____________________________________ If you wish to support the monks of the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via:
If you relinquish everything you will never have anything to lose
- Jhana is like being free from all debts - How do you take up the body? - Where does the danger of sensuality need to be seen? - Taking up one's own body as the basis for sensual delight - Practicing the relinquishment - Practice in the right order - Gateway of desires If you wish to support the monks of the Hillside and this channel you can do so by donating at: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us For other forms of Dhamma Teachings see: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/teachings
Don't Take it Personally
- A choice that could cut through everything - Diminishing of personality through sense restraint - Don't be absorbed in sights, sounds, smells, tastes and sensations - Sustaining this practice throughout your day - How to avoid rigidity in your practice - Being joyful
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Feeling only one feeling
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Longer Discussion on Four Brahmavihara
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Can Eternity be Impermanent
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Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts
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Contemplating the Cessation
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Abandon Being Here and Now
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Three Types of Practice
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What exists after death - Sutta Study SN 2285
- Does Arahant exist after death? - Problem of views - Are you independent of your feelings? - Does the Self even exist? - The impermanence of the aggregates - Intimate friend with a murderous intent
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Why do you keep losing sense restraint
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Get A Degree in Stream Entry
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Hard Precepts, Easy Safety
- Why is it hard to keep the precepts - Helpful community vs unhelpful community - Obsessing over minor details - Stop trying to get rid of discomfort of the doubt
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When to go into Seclusion
-Skilful seclusion vs the unskilful one.
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The Story of Nanda's Mother (Sutta Study AN 7.53)
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On Forgiveness-by Thaniyo Thero
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