REPROGRAMMING THE PLEASURE SEEKER (YOUTH DHAMMA SESSION)

<p><strong>Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.</strong></p> <p>Another session to accompany the fourth module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series looking into Buddha's Gradual Instructions to Lay People on DANGER IN SENSUAL PLEASURES (<em>kāmānaṁ ādīnavaṁ okāraṁ saṅkilesaṁ</em>) &nbsp;</p> <p>In this additional session, we look at the important area of <strong>REPROGRAMMING THE PLEASURE SEEKER</strong>. With a human body, we are born to seek pleasure through our sense faculties. And from the time we are babies, we trained to continue to seek pleasure in the same way. &nbsp;</p> <p><strong>It is only through the Buddha's Teachings that we are taught the danger of being pleasure seekers, the danger of strengthening and reinforcing longing, craving and indulgence through our senses. </strong>The Buddha teaches us that we will experience pain and sadness in this life if we keep following this tendency and conditioning; and it will inevitably lead to bondage that will keep us coming back to the sense realms in samsara. &nbsp;</p> <p><strong>The focus of this session is to really investigate the process of pleasure seeking through each sense faculty. To see the decline, decay in this process - that it is flawed. And then to look at some methods to reprogram this conditioning that is based on ignorance and craving.</strong></p> <p>Some of the suttas that are mentioned directly or indirectly in this session:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>— Kammanirodha Sutta (SN 35.146) &nbsp;</li> <li>— Kāmayoga Sutta (Iti 96) &nbsp;</li> <li>— Nibbedhika Sutta (AN 6.63)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Vatthūpama Sutta (MN 7)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Pariyesanā Sutta (AN 4.255) &nbsp;</li> <li>— Āditta Sutta (SN 35.28) &nbsp;</li> <li>— Dutiyacetanā Sutta (SN 12.39) &nbsp;</li> <li>— Dutiyasatta Sutta (Ud 7.4) &nbsp;</li> <li>— Dutiyasamugghātasappāya Sutta (SN 35.32)&nbsp;</li> <li>— Bhaya Sutta (AN 6.23) &nbsp;&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>If you have any questions or comments regarding this talk, please email them to suttameditationse