The Third Dart: How Convert-Buddhists Often Add Neurosis Onto Suffering Onto Pain | Aj. Kovilo
Channel: Clear Mountain Monastery
Date: 2023-10-01

In this session, Ajahn Kovilo looks more closely at a particular kind of dukkha: Western Convert dukkha - through the lens of 3 lines from the Buddha's FIrst Discourse (p. 105 of this Amaravati Chanting Book - https://cdn.amaravati.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/30/Chanting-Book-Vol-1-Web.pdf):
* "appiyehi sampayogo dukkho" - "association with the disliked is dukkha"
* "piyehi vipayogo dukkho" - "seperation from the liked is dukkha"
* "yampicaṃ na labhati tampi dukkhaṃ" - "not to get what one wants is"

After looking at this dukkha, we take a deeper dive into 6 terms from that same Discourse (p 107) describing the cessation of dukkha and Ajahn Kovilo proviced some "Theravāda Tai Chi" movements to memorize these:
* virāga - fading away
* nirodho - cessation
* cāgo - relinquishment,
* Paṭinissaggo - letting go
* Mutti - release
* anālayo - without any attachment

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