A comment on Siebe’s e-mail to Lal:
The tack that works for me, by far most times but not exactly always, is the contemplation of the futility of it: ‘this indulgence (in sensual pleasure, lustful intentions even) have you not done it for long enough?
How better are you for it all now? Contemplate on some Dhamma topic, any will do.’ Leave the scene, as it were.
I do not mean to ‘correct’ Siebe in any way. It is in fact an elaboration or a refinement to his method numbered 1. – or even only a re-statement of it in my own words.
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