Overcoming Distractions: Mastering the Five Hindrances with Right Effort [English]
Channel: HeartDhamma
Date: 2023-09-15

In this video, Bhante Ananda brings to light the Five Hindrances and how to overcome them with wisdom and Right Effort. These instructions will help you understand how the mind works and how to overcome distractions and learn how to master the mind.

This video is about understanding the mind and how it works. In this teaching, Bhante Ananda explains how to use wisdom to overcome distractions, by first understanding the difference between wholesome and unwholesome mental states, uplifting the mind with the seven factors of enlightenment, and letting go of distractions with the help of the four noble truths. This is called Right Effort, and by practicing in that way, you will experience a natural kind of mental collectedness, and durable happiness and peace!

This video was recorded as part of our Mumbai Retreat talk by Bhante Ānanda
February 2023.  Sonavane Ārāmaya, Karjat, Mumbai, India

Sutta:
MN 2 All the Distractions
https://heartdhamma.love/sutta/mn-2/

00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:31 - Distraction Day!
00:02:53 - Gladdening the Mind into Samādhi
00:05:35 - Going Back to The Suttas for Reference
00:10:23 - Seven Factors of Enlightenment
00:11:24 - Learning and Saddhā
00:13:05 - Samādhi Vs Āsavā
00:14:41 - Āsavā - Distractions - “To Flow”
00:17:49 - MN 2 Mastery of All Distractions - Wise Attention
00:20:23 - All the Ways of Giving Up Distractions
00:21:11 - 1. Given up by Understanding
00:27:21 - Wrong View: The Shackle of Blind Beliefs
00:31:17 - Yoga & Vedanta: Sachchidānanda Vs Anicca, Dhukkhā, Anatta
00:33:17 - Translating the Suttas for Right View in Practice
00:36:54 - Right View: Four Noble Truths
00:39:41 - Right View: Dukkha Nirodha + Patipadā
00:44:19 - 2. Given up by Self-Mastery
00:46:13 - Six Senses
00:48:57 - Tension Come to be
00:49:55 - 3. Given Up by Reflecion
00:54:04 - The Power of Contentment for Samādhi
00:54:50 - 4. Given Up by Endurance
00:57:30 - Lazy :)
00:57:59 - 5. Given up by Avoiding
01:00:31 - 6. Given up by Release
01:03:10 - 7. Given Up by Development
01:08:56 - The Grand Finale
01:09:50 - The 6Rs = Mastery of All Distractions
01:14:01 - Sharing Merits


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