Friends:
Sparse & short pleasure,
but long Tribulation!
Pleasures obtained by contact at
the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body or mind
all fade away and vanish instantly, when their contact ceases! They
are all:
Like a drop of honey on the edge of a razor blade: Short joy, but much
pain!
Like a show seen in a flash of lightening: Momentary and exceedingly
brief!
Like a drink made thin & tasteless: Dissatisfying, frustrating &
disappointing!
Like food all rotten inside or poisoned: Afflicting and causing
problems later!
Like a baited hook: First juicy, later torturing & tormenting and
finally Fatal!
Like an inner prison: Encaging, punishing, bonding, addicting and
making mad!
Like sleeping in an enemy's village: Dangerous, hazardous, treacherous
& risky!
Like a burning hollow tree: Agitated inside, feverish, frantic,
violently painful!
Like a chain of dry naked bare bones: Not healing any hunger, without
nutrition!
Like many days of drinking only salt water: Worsening any thirst &
drying out!
Please note the ceasing of sensation, whenever sensing & remember this
danger!
This is the primary hindrance to break, the first flood to cross:
Sense-Desire!
More on the
folly vanity of desire for simple Sense Pleasure (Hedonism):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.1-2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Charcoal_Pit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4c.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Colourful_but_Muddy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Craving_is_Catastrophic.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Fire_of_Sense-Desire.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_is_Disadvantageous.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Joys_of_the_Flesch_and_Beyond.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Happiness_of_the_Flesh_and_Beyond.htm
Another Addict and yet Another Addiction!
As the blessed Buddha often
pointed out:
Blissful is being without passions in this world,
Blissful is the overcoming of all sense-desires!
Udana II, 1
Just a Flash of Delight!
Have
a
nice
&
noble
day!
Friendship is the
Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samāhita
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