Sense Pleasures & Sensuality
August 13, 2022
Vivicc’eva kamehi vivicca akusalehi dhammehi, secluded from sensuality, secluded from unskillful qualities: That’s the beginning of the Buddha’s description of the first jhana. To get the mind into right concentration, you have to seclude your mind from sensuality. This doesn’t mean that you have to uproot sensuality, simply that you put sensual thoughts aside