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Great video! Very clear and concise. This provides much perspective on the practice. Thank you!

Excellent video and instructions. Many thanks.

Many merits and blessings for this guidance 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Surfing the internet is distraction. But how is it unwholesome?

@TheDhammaHub

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"Unwholesome" in the Buddhist sense does not necessarily mean that you cause harm to others, it means that an action "carries you away from Nibbana". The literal translation of "akusala (unwholesome) would be "unskillfull" or "non-beneficial". It is also not that everything internet-related is a distraction - only when you use it for distracting purposes.

Are keeping the 5 precepts enough "virtue" for someone trying to get the right view/stream entry? As I understand greed means "liking" and aversion means "disliking". When I go through the day I can notice these types of intentions with regards to most things I do. But not sure how much impulse control I have to do to make progress and eventually get to stream entry. For example, if I never acted out of greed I would never buy new clothes to look presentable, I would never use the AC and I wouldn't eat foods that I found tasty. When I do these things I feel a bit guilty that Im acting out of greed and maybe it's not enough to make progress. For the moment I just focus on keeping the 5 precepts and avoiding actions that I feel will lead to more impulsive behavior.

@TheDhammaHub

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Hey Sandeep! The 5 precepts are the basis, but Stream/Entry goes one step further and needs you to understand _why_ things are wholesome/unwholesome. It is very important to keep in mind that not all agreeable things are accompanied by greed or aversion. The "bad/unwholesome" is in your attitude towards those things. If you would just shy away from everything that is agreeable, you would go too far and become an ascetic that the Buddha also condemned. The Sotapanna understand exactly what things are fine and what arent and that requires a bit of work.

@SandeepYadav-nm7ty

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​@@TheDhammaHub So basically it's impossible for someone to know wholesome from unwholesome until they have right view. I understand this requires work but for someone who isn't a stream enterer should they "see danger in the slightest fault". Or would you recommend gradual reduction by not acting out of crude intentions (overeating, sexual content, anger, overspending etc) and then move on to subtle things. The first option seems to sound a bit ascetic to me. Or is that sutta aimed at someone with the right view who can tell wholesome from unwholesome?

@TheDhammaHub

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@@SandeepYadav-nm7ty The latter sounds good. Gradually reduce your craving on gross levels and more and more fine things will be available. That way, you can also understand better over time. That said, the understanding of wholesome/nwholesome can only come if you try to understand it over a long time and based on reduced craving

@SandeepYadav-nm7ty

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​@@TheDhammaHubthank you 🙏

Hi..very intersting video and thank u very much for all the videos you do.. i hv one clarification though..in this video you mention several times that if craving is still present one cannot claim sothapanna...but then COMPLETE absence of craving is only achived when one has arisen to arahantship..so im confused about this pls clarify..tks

@TheDhammaHub

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I do not think that I say that in this way with reference to the stage of a Sotapanna, if I remember correctly - because that would be wrong. A Sotapanna and to some degree a Sakadagami still has greed/hate/delusion left. What I say is that a person in _Jhana_ has no craving in the current experience left. The "introductory phrase" of every Jhana description is the Suttas is that a person is "quite secluded from sensual pleasures and unwholesome states". Sensuality are the lustful intentions and the entire phrase is another way to say "when a monk has not craved for long enough, we enters the first Jhana that is without craving". I guess the confusing part is that craving can always _return_ for a person who is not an arahant yet. Yet in Jhana, there is no craving for the time being.

@georgearonis9247

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Well said👍

Focussing on the mind to change the heart is wonderful! Invite Jesus everyday. You need Jesus, pray for Him to reveal Himself everyday. Not a single unforgiven sin will enter into heaven, and the creator of the heavens, hells and universe is keeping score, not man himself. If you turn to Christ I am sure you will be the one guiding many to the peace that surpasses all understanding. Because you trust God so much, you even trust thoughts to come and go without your interference. If you do not believe the realms have a creator, than I am not sure what your idea is about the origin of heavenly places.