151 CONTACT AS NUTRIMENT & GOING THE WRONG WAY DUE TO HATE - Part 3 - The Second Unprofitable Direction

<p>Welcome back to the <strong>Sutta Meditation Series Podcast</strong>.</p> <p>We continue with our examination of "<u>all sentient beings are sustained by nutriment</u>" <em>(sabbe sattā āhāraṭṭhitikā)</em> in the Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33) &nbsp;</p> <p>In this session <strong>(PART 3), we will examine the Second Unprofitable Direction how we go the Wrong Way due to Hate (dosa agatigamanaṃ) when we crave Contact as Nutriment (phassa āhāro). &nbsp;</strong></p> <p>All the nutriments are linked, so build on what we covered in the session on the Physical Nutriment and Going the Wrong Way due to Desire.</p> <p>What we cover in this session:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>— look at how craving for Contact as Nutriment activates dependent origination&nbsp;</li> <li>— revisit the Buddha's simile of the flayed (or skinned) cow&nbsp;</li> <li>— highlight the importance of the greed, hatred and delusion meditation that confirms all feeling leads to dukkha (need to understand this to overcome craving for Contact as Nutriment)&nbsp;</li> <li>— go line by line to understand the process of how we go the wrong way due to hate&nbsp;</li> <li>— go through an example of this process and apply other suttas to further explain</li> <li>— discuss how much we much depend on feeling to fix things, then personalise it - taking it as me-and-mine, and how we don't understand the poison wedged in our mind that it's not sukha, but dukkha &nbsp;</li> <li>— tips for learning and developing this meditation &nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>Most of the suttas that are directly or indirectly referred to in this session:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>— Āhāra Sutta (SN 12.11)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Paṭiccasamuppāda Sutta (SN 12.1)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Atthirāga Sutta (SN 12.64)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Puttamaṁsa Sutta (SN 12.63)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Suttavebhaṅgiya (Pe 9) &nbsp;</li> <li>— Pālileyya Sutta (SN 22.81)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Ādittapariyāya Sutta (SN 35.28)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Hāliddikāni Sutta (SN 22.3)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Vipallāsa Sutta (AN 4.49)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Upādāna