Hillside Hermitage Podcast

Learning through failure and conveying the right messages to your citta. If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

Difference between training in the precepts or merely keeping them. Contemplations of the unpleasant scenarios Final immovability of the mind If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

Are you judging yourself for being judgmental? If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

Why can't you let go of things even when you know they are not in your control. If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

The Buddha's advice for beginners:https://suttas.hillsidehermitage.org/?q=an5.114 If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

How do you actually understand things and what does it mean to know something. If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

Sutta study of SN 46.6: Kuṇḍaliyasutta If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

Why is virtue necessary for successful practice... If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

What does it mean to know that "whatever has the nature to arise, has the nature to cease"? Why no one below the stream-enterer knows what is beneficial and what is not. If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

What are the necessary pre-requisites for the practice of Satipatthana, and why it is a mistake to think of it as a meditation method. If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

Advice to Rahula, the Buddha's son, on how to practice anapanasati and various other ways of purification from the defilements. If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

Is there a place for devotion and veneration in the Right practice? If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

Sutta study - AN 10.62 — Taṇhā Sutta (The Discourse on Craving) Why is there no first point of craving manifested? Undoing everything, here-and-now, that prevents you from the knowledge-and-liberation Nature of yoniso manasikara and practical examples of how to develop it If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

Many approach the practice thinking that it means hours of meditation or chasing special experiences. But true Dhamma practice is a lot simpler—and far more profound. Why “meditation” in the modern sense isn’t the core of practice How to develop clarity by taking responsibility for your actions Why novelty and spiritual experiences are distractions How to overcome the pressure of tradition and the sense of “duty” in Buddhist practice If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

The difference between the background lived body and the body you actively attend to, how dependence on sense objects shapes your threshold of being, and where the assumption of self takes root. If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

Why our desire for control leads to discomfort, why anxiety feels more unbearable than pain, and how understanding it can transform it into liberation. Instead of being weighed down by uncertainty, the same lack of safety can be unburdened, weightless, and free. (attachments and anxiety, philosophy of attachment, anxiety vs pain, control and suffering, weightless mind) If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

Peace as a result of virtue vs peace of the right view What, apart from virtue and sense restraint is required for right view? How to keep the practice alive If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

Sutta study of SN 45.24 and AN 5.57 where the Buddha explains how whether for a householder or for one gone forth, the path to the Right view and the objects of reflections are the same. If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

What is meant by "being" and "non-being", and what is the gratification, danger and escape in the case of these two views? (MN 11) The gradual abandonment of craving If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

Pleasant vs. unpleasant path Why the puthujjana isn't on the path and how their efforts should be directed Not confusing management for the actual uprooting of suffering The right and wrong way to practice asubha (non-beautiful) If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠