Discovering the Path of Right Effort: Restraint for Inner Peace
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- Right Effort in Buddhist practice has four aspects. The first of these is the effort to restrain. What does that mean, and how can we work with it?
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00:00 Intro
01:10 Shorter version of the first effort
01:44 Simile of the lute
03:11 The longer suttas on effort
04:24 Practice of sense restraint
05:13 Practicing restraint from attachment
07:45 Practicing restraint from aversion
11:05 Meditation as restraint
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I had just sit down with my lunch and started playing this video. Then the video starts
"key to success in any practice is effort, the effort we put into that practice"
And then I am reminded that I have a practice of mindfulness, to being as present as possible with what I'm doing.
I pause the video, enjoy my lunch as mindfully as possible, wash the dishes, and go back to watching while enjoying a coffee
(still feeling a bit discouraged for having brought that coffee with me into the video).
Then the video goes on about simile of the lute, and how we are supposed to find that sweet spot in our continuum of effort
I suppose having that coffee at that time may have been that sweet spot for me! 😊
Thank you as always for the great content Doug!
Hey there you go! ☕️
I really appreciate the strings-of-the-lute-metaphor. It has been useful quite often in many aspects of my life.
Love and peace from Germany... 🐱🙏
Yes one of my favorites as well. 😊
Same. This metafore beautifuly fits in my understanding of practice
Thanks for another good video, Doug. On the topic of attachment and aversion, my rudimentary understanding is that these are two extremes that can lead to unwholesome states. The Middle Way of the Buddha emphasizes the importance of understanding and overcoming these unwholesome states through developing skillful means like mindfulness, wisdom, and the cultivation of wholesome qualities - e.g. loving-kindness (metta), compassion (karuna), sympathetic joy (mudita), and equanimity (upekkha). By recognizing the impermanent and unsatisfactory nature of all phenomena, practitioners can develop a balanced mind, free from the extremes of attachment and aversion, leading towards liberation (nibbana). I feel like the Buddha’s teachings encourage us to adopt a mindset that fosters learning from both wholesome and unwholesome experiences - both internally and externally. We can all learn from our attachments and aversions - and hopefully develop wisdom and skillful means, along the Middle Way.
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I know people, grown men, who have queue'd outside department stores overnight! ,.. just to get the latest video game. But then I suppose that's the kind of thing that will happen, the more we base our happiness on outside things? 😊🙏
Oh for sure. And we all have our little eccentricities. 😄
Thanks for tackling this one Doug as it’s one of the things in Buddhism that makes me feel inadequate, but conversely then I do sometimes wonder if I’m missing the point somehow and being over-zealous in my efforts and it’s working against me. And of course you’ve pointed out simply and clearly where my effort should lie. 👍
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Doug - you are truly cultivating “bhoddichitta “ and transmitting the Dharma
using various illustrations and skillfull means “
Check out neuroplasticity and medically supervised ketamine
This is a dharma door ,eliminating SELF and
brining to the first 2nd jhana
Worth exploring ❤
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Thank you Doug, this is such an underrated topic in budhism. In my budhist/emotional life samma voyama was the most useful tool.
You're very welcome!
Top 3 games, I have to know.
😄😄 Haven't in a long time now, so I'm out of the loop.
Of all things, I would've least figured you a gamer. :)
That said, I have similar experiences with gaming. Especially since there is hardly a (comfortable) way for me to play video games mindfully. It's similar to when I listen to music. It just becomes sound. I can't enjoy both without allowing to get carried away by them.
😄😄 Well, more an ex-gamer, though I never played enough to be considered "serious".
Thank you, Doug. I enjoyed this video and felt peaceful after watching.
You are very welcome. 🙏
Thanks Doug 🙏
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I very much enjoy this content. Thank you!
My pleasure!
For the news issue, I am fond of getting updates from 1440 in my emails. Enough to keep me informed without the emotional attachment. ❤
Interesting, yes I'm also familiar with Ground News.
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I have the same problem as Sona, I exagerate in my practice
Ah yes, so maybe try to relax and let off the gas a little?
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I'm so glad I came across this video! I literally just realised how profoundly unskillful I am. I recently tasted the very real subjective consequences of my unskillfulness. It's not nice. I don't know where I'm going. I only know what I want to move away from.
Great, that's motivation for you!
How well that you see this. Confrontation with our own unskilful tendencies is not pleasant. Then again, it is not supposed to be pleasant.
The tradition claims that mindfulness strengthens wholesome mind states though, and weakens unwholesome states.
Hang in there, friend. Mettā.
Hey Doug, thanks for the video. I’m a student in university right now. I really enjoy the maths/physics that I study. And, when I find myself clear minded and without ego, it’s a very pure, humble motivation that reminds me why I pursued it in the first place. However, sometimes I feel like a fool for pursuing my studies so hard. I feel like a wise man would pursue meditation or nirvana instead. Sometimes I worry that I might conflate my desire to create a theory or be a good physicist with the goal of nirvana. It feels like I’m trying to balance my goals of something I think of as an art and my spiritual goals.
So I guess the question is: does the Buddha believe in sacrificing these other goals for spiritual goals? Are spiritual goals the end goal?
Thanks.
Well, for the Buddha nirvana was the end goal, the most important goal. But he did not expect everyone to pursue such a goal, indeed the very existence of the monastic sangha depended upon there being laypeople to support it through donations of food, clothing, etc.
@@DougsDharma Hm okay. Thank you for the response.
00:37 to get the list. That lute is way before equal temperament. I force myself to watch the whole video. So hard.
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I'm a 22 year old that plays a lot of videogames.
I understand that they take a lot of time, but If I'd quit, what would I do?
Work more is for material things and for ego
Exercise, learn something new, etc.
Yes there are a *lot* of other valuable things you can do with your time if you want to. Other ideas: meditate, volunteer, take up another hobby, read, etc. Not to say playing games is always a bad idea, but it can become limiting.
get a hobby, in addition to doing volunttering(fun), maybe do some things like learning fun things
Oh I gotta know - what video games do you play most?
😄😄 Really I haven't played video games much in years.
It would seem that maybe video editing has become your healthy alternative. 😊🙏