Hello Everyone,
Just prior to hitting the play button to this desana, a dizzying head rush occurred. A familiar precusor to a major perception change…and this desana was just that!
The significance in this desana came with the example of the fly drawn to the light. It solidified the understanding of the dangers of normal sense pleasures easily and being stuck in the long and dangerous rebirth process.
Lately, excessive sense pleasures (ie, cookies and chocolate, something given up after Christmas and then indulged in yesterday) are now creating instantaneous kamma vipaka both good and bad. In the case of cookies, nausea! It seems if you try to go backwards the suffering is fast and severe if it is not in alignment with attaining Arahanthood. This goes for not only actions, but speech and thought. It’s amazing how the process moves you along to walk the path!
With metta,
Donna :)