April 3, 2024 at 8:27 am
#48864
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 “appassada” or “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.”
- While some people crave smoking, most people do not like the smell. Thus, it is mind-made, i.e., a basic example of “distorted saññā.”
- See “Fooled by Distorted Saññā (Sañjānāti) – Origin of Attachment (Taṇhā)” and “Mūlapariyāya Sutta – The Root of All Things“
- You can contemplate the ādinava (health issues) of smoking and give it up.
- That is an easy thing to give up compared to other cravings.