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Bhikkhu Samahita
Friends:
How does Sense-Desire Muddle up the Mind?
A
Brahmin Priest once asked the Blessed Buddha:
Master
Gotama, what is the cause of being unable to remember even something that
has been memorized over a long period & also that which has not been
memorized?
Brahmin,
when mind is obsessed by sense-desire, beset & dominated by sense-desire,
and one does not understand any actual safe escape from this arisen
sense-desire,
in that very moment, one neither sees nor understands, what is
truly advantageous,
neither for oneself, nor for others, nor for both... On
such occasions, even texts,
that have been long memorized, cannot be
recalled by mind. Why is this neglect so?
Imagine a bucket of water mixed
with dyes or paints: Yellow, blue, and crimson red.
If a man with good
eye-sight were to inspect the reflection of his own face in it,
he would
neither see nor recognize it, as it really is! So too, brahmin, when mind is
obsessed by sense-desire, beset & dominated by sense-desire, on that
occasion even
those texts, that have been long memorized does not recur to
the mind, not to speak
of those texts, events and things, that have not been
memorized at all…
On how to prevent the
mental hindrances see:
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm
on Hedonism
http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.1-2.htm
on Sex
http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4.htm on Cure
http://www.what-buddha-said.org/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4c.htm
Source
(edited extract):
The
Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:121-2]
section 46: The Links. 55: To Sangarava...
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