Reply To: Looking at a Sensual Desire

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Lal
Keymaster

Yes. Your craving for smoking can easily be broken since it is not an addiction yet.

Regarding your statement, “The Pleasure vanishes away. Of little taste and utility- Alpa Swada -Anityata (Dhammapada 186).”

  • Alpa Swada in Pāli is “appassadaor “appa” “assāda” where “appa” means “little” and “assāda” is (mind-made) pleasures.”
  • That verse is discussed in “Dhammapada Verses 186 and 187.” 

In the “Dutiyayodhājīva Sutta (AN 5.76)” the Buddha says: “‘appassādā, āvuso, kāmā vuttā bhagavatā bahudukkhā bahupāyāsā, ādīnavo ettha bhiyyo” OR “‘Reverend, the Buddha says that sensual pleasures give little gratification and much suffering and distress, and they are all the more full of drawbacks.”