Sensual pleasures

And since we wish to be sterile, let us also be chaste, for there is nothing more shameful and ignoble than to forswear what in Nature is fertile while holding on to the part we like in what we've forsworn. There are no halfway noble attitudes. Fernando Pessoa

Thursday 21 April 2016

Listening to Beethoven also is sensuality ...

Listening to Beethoven also is sensuality, but when you have said 'sex' you have said all. A man who can give up sex can give up Beethoven.

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Introduction
The right definition of pleasure
Sensual pleasures as obstacle to knowledge
Sensual pleasures should be known
Is the eye the fetter of forms or are forms the fetter of the eye?
Designations for sensual pleasures
Bondage
This is a path followed by inferior people; it is not the path followed by superior people
So it is, when one strays outside one’s own resort into the domain of others
A large herd of deer
That one can engage in sensual pleasures without sensual desires, without perceptions of sensual desire, without thoughts of sensual desire—that is impossible
Beings who are not free from lust for sensual pleasures, who are devoured by craving for sensual pleasures, who burn with fever for sensual pleasures, have faculties that are impaired; thus, though sensual pleasures are actually painful to touch, they acquire a mistaken perception of them as pleasant
Gratification, danger, escape
"Who lives in greater pleasure: King Seniya Bimbisara of Magadha or venerable Gotama?"'
Beyond sensual pleasure there is a pleasure higher then the sensual pleasure, and that is declared to be the highest among them
The recluse Gotama speaks of the Cessation of Perception and Feeling and describes it as pleasure. What is this and how is this?
Sensual pleasures are impermanent, hollow, false, deceptive; they are illusory, the prattle of fools. Sensual pleasures here and now and sensual pleasures in lives to come, sensual perceptions here and now and sensual perceptions in lives to come—both alike are Māra’s realm, Māra’s domain, Māra’s bait, Māra’s hunting ground. On account of them, these evil unwholesome mental states such as covetousness, ill will, and presumption arise, and they constitute an obstruction to a noble disciple in training here
Does there arise in me any mental attachment concerned with any source of defilement among these five cords of sensual pleasure?
The way of undertaking things that is pleasant now and ripens in the future as pain
It is impossible that Prince Jayasena, living in the midst of sensual pleasures, enjoying sensual pleasures, being devoured by thoughts of sensual pleasures, being consumed by the fever of sensual pleasures, bent on the search for sensual pleasures, could know, see, or realise that which must be known through renunciation, seen through renunciation, attained through renunciation, realised through renunciation
He should be understood as a person who is intent on worldly material things
Sexual intercourse is to be abandoned. With regard to sexual intercourse, the Buddha declares the cutting off of the bridge.
I do not see even one other form that is as tantalizing, sensuous, intoxicating, captivating, infatuating, and as much of an obstacle to achieving the unsurpassed security from bondage as the form of a woman. Beings who are lustful for the form of a woman—ravenous, tied to it, infatuated, and blindly absorbed in it—sorrow for a long time under the control of a woman’s form

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