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object-sensual pleasures and defilement-sensual pleasures. What are object-sensual pleasures? Pleasant forms, pleasant sounds, pleasant odors, pleasant tastes, pleasant touches; coverings, garments, male and female slaves, goats, sheep, chickens, pigs, elephants, cattle, horses, mares, fields, land, gold, silver, villages, towns, royal capitals, country and district, treasury and storehouse – whatever is an object of passion, these are object-sensual pleasures. Furthermore, past sensual pleasures, future sensual pleasures, present sensual pleasures, internal sensual pleasures, external sensual pleasures, internal and external sensual pleasures, inferior sensual pleasures, middling sensual pleasures, superior sensual pleasures, sensual pleasures leading to the lower realms, human sensual pleasures, divine sensual pleasures, present sensual pleasures, created sensual pleasures, created by others sensual pleasures, grasped sensual pleasures, ungrasped sensual pleasures, cherished sensual pleasures, uncherished sensual pleasures, all phenomena of the sense-sphere, all phenomena of the form-sphere, all even formless realm phenomena, whose basis is craving, whose object is craving, by way of being desirable, by way of being delightful, by way of being intoxicating, by way of being enchanting, are sensuality. These are called sensuality of objects. What are defilement-sensuality? Desire is sensuality, lust is sensuality, desire-lust is sensuality, intention is sensuality, lust is sensuality, intention-lust is sensuality, whatever in sensual pleasures is sensual desire, sensual lust, sensual delight, sensual craving, sensual affection, sensual thirst, sensual torment, sensual greed, sensual infatuation, sensual obsession, sensual flood, sensual yoke, sensual clinging, sensual desire as a hindrance – "I saw your root, O sensuality, From intentions, O sensuality, you arise; I will not intend you, Thus, O sensuality, you will not be." These are called defilement-sensuality. Greed is called craving, whatever lust, that is attachment... ...greed, covetousness, a root of unwholesome. "Should not be greedy for sensual pleasures" means should not be greedy for sensuality of objects with defilement-sensuality, should not be bound, should be ungreedy, unattached, uninfatuated, unobsessed, freed from greed, gone from greed, abandoned greed, vomited greed, released from greed, given up greed, renounced greed, freed from lust, gone from lust, abandoned lust, vomited lust, released from lust, given up lust, renounced lust, unthirsting, extinguished, cooled, experiencing happiness, should dwell with a Brahma-like self – "should not be greedy for sensual pleasures." "Should be undisturbed in mind." Mind means that which is consciousness, mind, mentality, heart, white, mind, mind-base, mind-faculty, consciousness, aggregate of consciousness, the element of mind-consciousness born of that. By bodily misconduct, the mind becomes disturbed, agitated, stirred, struck, moved, confused, unpacified. By verbal misconduct... ...by mental misconduct... ...by lust... ...by hatred... ...by delusion... ...by anger... ...by resentment... ...by disparagement... ...by insolence... ...by envy... ...by avarice... ...by deceit... ...by craftiness... ...by stubbornness... ...by arrogance... ...by conceit... ...by excessive pride... ...by intoxication... ...by heedlessness... ...by all defilements... ...by all misconducts... ...by all burnings... ...by all torments... ...by all distresses... ...by all Through unwholesome volitional formations the mind becomes disturbed, agitated, stirred, afflicted, wavering, confused, unpacified. "May one be undisturbed in mind" means one should be undisturbed in mind – unagitated, unstirred, unafflicted, unwavering, unconfused, pacified. He should abandon, relinquish, dispel, make an end of, bring to naught the defilements that cause disturbance. And from the defilements that cause disturbance, he should be aloof, abstinent, refrained, gone forth, released, freed, disjoined, and dwell with an unbounded mind – thus, "may one be undisturbed in mind." "Skilled in all phenomena" means: Skilled in all phenomena as "all formations are impermanent," Skilled in all phenomena as "all formations are suffering," Skilled in all phenomena as "all phenomena are non-self," Skilled in all phenomena as "formations are conditioned by ignorance," ...and so on... Skilled in all phenomena as "whatever is of the nature to arise, all that is of the nature to cease." In this way, he is skilled in all phenomena. Or again, skilled in all phenomena as impermanent, as suffering, ...and so on... as disease, as a boil, as a dart, as an affliction, as an ailment, as alien, as decaying, as a calamity, as a misfortune, as fear, as a danger, as trembling, as breaking up, as unstable, as having no protection, as having no shelter, as having no refuge, as having become without refuge, as empty, as vain, as void, as non-self, as disadvantageous, as of a changing nature, as without essence, as the root of evil, as a slayer, as dissolution, as with taints, as conditioned, as Māra's bait, as of the nature to be born, as of the nature to age, as of the nature to sicken, as of the nature to die, as of the nature of sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair, as of the nature to defile, as arising, as ceasing, as gratification, as disadvantage, as escape. Skilled in all phenomena. In this way, he is skilled in all phenomena. Or again, skilled in aggregates, skilled in elements, skilled in sense bases, skilled in dependent origination, skilled in foundations of mindfulness, skilled in right exertions, skilled in bases of psychic power, skilled in faculties. He is skilled in good, skilled in the factors of awakening, skilled in the path, skilled in the fruit, skilled in Nibbāna. Thus he is skilled in all phenomena. Or, all phenomena are called the twelve sense bases: eye and forms, ear and sounds, nose and odors, tongue and tastes, body and tangibles, mind and mental objects. When craving and lust for internal and external sense bases are abandoned, their root cut off, made like a palm-stump, made non-existent, not liable to arise in the future, to that extent he is skilled in all phenomena. Thus, skilled in all phenomena. The mindful bhikkhu wanders. Mindful means mindful for four reasons: mindful, developing the contemplation of the body in the body; mindful, developing the contemplation of feelings in feelings; mindful, developing the contemplation of mind in mind; mindful, developing the contemplation of mental objects in mental objects. Mindful for other four reasons: mindful, avoiding unmindfulness; mindful, having done what is to be done with mindfulness; mindful, having destroyed phenomena that obstruct mindfulness; mindful, not forgetting the signs of mindfulness. Mindful for other four reasons: mindful, endowed with mindfulness; mindful, skilled in mindfulness; mindful, endowed with proficiency in mindfulness; mindful, not falling back from mindfulness. Mindful for other four reasons: mindful, endowed with mindfulness; mindful, being tranquil; mindful, being calmed; mindful, endowed with tranquil phenomena. Mindful through recollection of the Buddha, mindful through recollection of the Dhamma, mindful through recollection of the Saṅgha, mindful through recollection of virtue, mindful through recollection of generosity, mindful through recollection of deities, mindful through mindfulness of breathing, mindful through mindfulness of death, mindful through mindfulness of the body, mindful through recollection of peace. That mindfulness, recollection... ...right mindfulness, the mindfulness factor of awakening, the one-way path, this is called mindfulness. Endowed with this mindfulness, he is... approached, arrived, come, attained, fully attained, endowed, he is called mindful. A monk is one who has broken seven things: wrong view of self is broken, doubt is broken, adherence to rites and rituals is broken, lust is broken, hatred is broken, delusion is broken, conceit is broken. Evil, unwholesome, defiling, leading to renewed existence, accompanied by suffering, with painful results, leading to birth, aging, and death in the future, are broken. By the path made by oneself, Having gone to Nibbana, with doubt dispelled; Having abandoned both existence and non-existence, having lived the holy life, with rebirth exhausted, he is a monk. A mindful monk wanders, a mindful monk should wander, he should go mindfully, he should stand mindfully, he should sit mindfully, he should lie down mindfully, he should advance mindfully, he should retreat mindfully, he should look forward mindfully, he should look around mindfully, he should bend his limbs mindfully, he should extend his limbs mindfully, he should wear his outer robe, bowl, and inner robe mindfully, he should move, dwell, act, behave, protect, maintain, sustain mindfully – a mindful monk wanders. Therefore, the Blessed One said: “He should not crave for sensual pleasures, his mind should be undisturbed; Skilled in all phenomena, a mindful monk should wander.” At the end of the verse, for those many thousands of beings who were of one mind, one practice, one intention, imbued with one disposition with the brahmin, the dust-free, stain-free Dhamma-eye arose: “Whatever is of the nature to arise, all that is of the nature to cease.” The mind of that brahmin was liberated from the defilements without clinging. Immediately upon attaining arahantship, his deer-skin, matted hair, bark-cloth, triple staff, water-pot, hair, and beard disappeared, and he was clad in ochre robes, wearing the outer robe, bowl, and inner robe, and in accordance with his practice, he sat with clasped hands, saluting the Blessed One: “The Blessed One is my Teacher, venerable sir, I am a disciple.” The first explanation of the questions of the young men. 2.