WHY IT'S DIFFICULT TO RENUNCIATE THE WORLD (FULL DHAMMA SESSION, Poya)

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

This is the FULL DHAMMA SESSION conducted on ILL POYA (18 November 2021) via zoom on "WHY IT'S DIFFICULT TO RENUNCIATE THE WORLD", how to contemplate the Hāliddikāni Sutta (SN 22.3)

This is a teaching to lay people, with Venerable Mahākaccāna elaborating on the Buddha's verse:

"Having left home to roam without abode,
In the village the sage is intimate with none;
Rid of sensual pleasures, without expectations,
He would not engage people in dispute"

A very important teaching about the importance of not making a home for consciousness to establish and not roaming with our sense faculties to construct (and reconstruct) the world, with some very practical application.

This Dhamma session consolidates and expands on many of the instructions, insight pathways and meditations we have studied over the past few poya and other Dhamma sessions.

Note - This is a broad session on the Hāliddikāni Sutta (SN 22.3), and we may have another session to go through a powerful meditation on this sutta

In this Dhamma session we cover:

• — Tips & reminders
• — Why it’s difficult to renunciate the world
• — Introduction to the HāliddikāniSutta (SN 22.3)
• — Venerable Mahākaccāna’s detailed explanation of Buddha’s brief statement in 3 parts
• — What is a sage (muni)?
• — How to meditate on Halidakkani Sutta

Some of the suttas covered directly or indirectly in this session:

• — Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33)
• — Suttavebhaṅgiya (Pe 9)
• — Pamādavihārī Sutta (SN35.97)
• — Loka Sutta (SN 1.70)
• — Lokapañhā Sutta (SN 35.82)
• — Cunda Sutta (Ud 8.5)
• — Candūpamā Sutta (SN 16.3)
• — Kulūpaka Sutta(SN 16.4)
• — Moneyya Sutta (AN 3.122)
• — Anusota Sutta (AN 4.5)
• — Girimānanda Sutta (AN 10.60)
• — Pañcasataāgantukabhikkhuvatthu (Dhp 87)
• — Asubha Sutta (AN 4.163)
• — Karaṇīyametta Sutta (Sn1.8)
• — Vatthūpama Sutta (MN 7)

To read the Hāliddikāni Sutta (SN 22.3) - https://suttacentral.net/sn22.3/en/bodhi

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A VIDEO of this FULL SESSION with presentation slides has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Lf53-GxYA AND on Spotify as a video podcast

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