WHY IS SENSE RESTRAINT SO IMPORTANT FOR METTA? - Metta Q&A

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

In this segment, we look at the question of "WHY IS SENSE RESTRAINT SO IMPORTANT FOR METTA? CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY THE LACK OF SENSE RESTRAINT IS CONSIDERED DANGEROUS, AND WHY THE BUDDHA USES THE SIMILE OF BURNING WHEN DESCRIBING THIS?" by:

• - reviewing how sense restraint fits into the training for higher virtue, higher thought and higher wisdom, which forms the foundation for the activating the insight pathway contained in the Buddha's Karaṇīyametta Sutta meditation;
• - taking a closer look at the Ādittapariyāya Sutta (SN 35.28);
• - extracting an insight pathway meditation from the Ādittapariyāya Sutta (SN 35.28); and
• - examining where the practise of sense restraint fits with dependent origination and the potential to break some of the links in this conditioned process.

Suttas mentioned in this segment:

• – Karaṇīyametta Sutta (Sn1.8)
• – Kummopama Sutta (SN 35.240 )
• – Pamādavihāri Sutta (SN 35.97)
• – Indriyasaṃvara Sutta (AN 6.50)
• – Ādittapariyāya Sutta (SN 35.28)
• – Paṭiccasamuppāda Sutta (SN 12.1)
• – Ārāmadaṇḍa Sutta (AN 2.36)

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A VIDEO of this Metta Q&A segment with presentation slides has been uploaded to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YA-tsAe568