True happiness and lasting calm do not arise from the consumption of material goods or sensory pleasures, but from the cultural and spiritual practice of meditation, which leads to a stable inner equanimity that remains independent of external disturbances.
The text compares human food to the need to nourish the heart, and argues that material goods and sensory pleasures may secure physical survival, but do not create genuine happiness. It describes how people often fall into a cycle of consumption, sensory overload, and temporary satisfaction, which leads to inner emptiness and restlessness. As a countermeasure, stillness and the practice of meditation are presented, which are said to lead to a state of equanimity (Upekkha). The text warns that a serenity dependent only on external calm is fragile and immediately turns into anger when disturbed. Using the example of the monk Moggalana, it illustrates how even spiritual seekers initially pursue worldly pleasures before finding the deeper peace in the Dhamma. The central message is that true contentment does not depend on possession, but on inner equanimity, which remains independent of external circumstances.
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The same standards apply to every tradition, see Values.
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When a person has eaten, the basic needs that we seek or strive for are the five aggregates of existence, namely the food that sustains the body according to the five sense organs, and then the treatment of illness. This is what helps life to continue. Without the five aggregates, it is difficult. This is called the basic needs of human beings. Before the previous event, there was a discussion in the West, and then also regarding this very issue of basic needs, for the sake of the people, having food, having things to use, not having to beg, just asking to be far from poverty. In modern times, this is called being in the mind, but with great interest. Do not be impatient, but you have never cared about what we truly need, or what constitutes basic needs. That is the fault. When one has eaten until full, has the basic necessities of happiness, is free from hunger, is free from illness, then one needs other things. We need happiness, truly. We need other things as well. Being accepted, being respected, receiving gratitude, having the right to live life in one’s own way. However, happiness is something that cannot be obtained merely by having food, having things to use, having clean water, having air to breathe. People are not satisfied with that alone. We need happiness. And the happiness that people think of often does not bring results. Happiness from sensory pleasures, which in terms of form means eating, drinking, traveling, playing, touching, and being together. Many people, when they wake up, must go find food, have the intention to develop, the mind must seek happiness. Upon waking, one must go find delicious food to eat, and drink as well. There is no necessary item that is not truly so. One encounters pancakes on the road, or says, “Truly” is the face of cinema, and then plays in this manner, which is the web. It is not just downloading the indie game. It is not just posting aligned to play or to be strong. Oh, let’s go to Bangladesh to play, or have a parting that can be assigned. It is the parting of Brom. This happiness is broader than just having one kind of desire. It is happiness. Cooking requires adding a little spice. Looking at the path to bring happiness, and when it becomes a sprite steak, it comes to a stop. Here, listening to music, one cannot endure it because of oneself. One cannot endure it because it is too stimulating. It is easily a sneeze. The decoration is a blue passage. Why, before, if it were like that, the need... the system of his body, power, it will only have people watching. In this day, it goes far to the side, the system of stars, the whole system... the system of the world, that is one thing. Or else the system of buildings. It is stimulating. And this is part of the survival of the body, the protection of oneself. One sees new things, and excitement arises. Even more so if one can buy it and own it, it feels good, generating joy. The matter of the imaginary world is also a form of survival that stimulates the body. Especially the matter of good things that are already present. This is the happiness of people. As for those who know, when they go to seek happiness, they must go eat, drink, play, like watching water, which requires money. Thus, it becomes a narrator of life. Because of this, the body is hurt, the Lord, because without money, there is no happiness. Truly, and happiness is not in another deep country that people do not often know. But anzmg vilja also seeks the Lord virus. The highest that arises from the ridge of the soul, directly entering the essence of the need to look, or... “the path of the mother’s jaw” bagus. The happiness of the jaw’s pain offset, or the frame of the ear, has the function of surviving the stimulation of Arabia bannen ihr..... Looking, it does not seem to be the highest anywhere, such as the contest of flavors. But many people, their happiness, that it is hot Pierce, and the up is the matter of cents, just white, or that playing it is coun, the spirit is heavy. These are happinesses that are located in the matter of the body’s stimulation, arising from wyp, but navigation kering uses a rope to cross the stream, because he does not. The body’s stimulation makes the heart tremble. Those who Read.com also have food, have driven, have taken, have use, have head, have wish, have fait, learned, eat, receive pides, doing, insurance, the desire for openness. There are some things that are missing from life, namely peace. This peace is not for those who are very busy. If a person does not need to rush in seeking the five aggregates, or a person who eats, drinks, and plays until full, is very busy, each person tries to find the knowledge of the essence. There is no certainty of the use of medicine, the use of self, but they do not find the fullness, the fullness, the fullness, eager. In the end, they find the happiness they seek, which is the happiness from the mind. This goes to the effect of why, for France, it is very much that they can taste success in life, having money, having a lot of wealth. In the end, they must come to seek peace. Ang, coming to the city of Thailand, to practice meditation, to make merit, to the Lord of the day. Even the good language of the son, the Lord Moggalana is Kalitta Upasagolitta. When he was a man, he was called the one who ate and drank to the fullest. But then one day, we wanted to go see a movie, going far to the side that disturbs, watching a movie to the fullest, watching the stealing and playing, which was not just once, but done many times. But in the end, he got bored. Ah, the Dharma came to be interested, came to support the Lord, able to go out to mint, like being a good monk, the Lord Moggalana is lon. As for that, and the Lord
Full of almost happiness, the first happiness, the condition is not good, the movement is not good, in the end it comes to seek happiness from Dhamma, and then it is able to go beyond happiness, called contemplation. But for ordinary people, we must first begin by filling the mind with contemplation. Whoever does not have contemplation in their mind will generate the habit of seeking and searching, not being at peace. This is one result for people who are wealthy, having much work, perhaps a lot of work, but not being at peace. What they earn is never enough. Seeing the result, it is because there is not enough; if there is enough, it is a lot, or if there is much, the mind will have happiness and then seek more. If you fill it, if you pour it in, it will seek more. But the wrong things in the mind also cause one to have to search and seek. But those of high status or whose fathers are social leaders say that another emptiness in the mind arises from not having enough. But in reality, it is enough, not enough, just different. Even a single person knows how to seek, or can reach peace. Many people, upon encountering this vacuum of happiness, just for a moment, two moments, know this seeking. This is what they desire, what they fear. But many people are still immersed in the taste of coming to happiness. Therefore, they are still unable to let go of themselves to reach contemplation, as found in the forest monastery. This is a difference with people of this era. The mind itself desires contemplation, the mind itself still seeks happiness from things that are hot and cold, happiness from eating, drinking, traveling, and enjoying. Speaking of contemplation, which is happiness, as at the beginning, one should be happy, fer emerged is a sign of the moment, but the destruction of the mind, having clarity, sareaci, the act of encountering a peaceful place. Many people want to go to a resort, want to go to the seaside in a Buddhist country, because it is peaceful. This is said to create bodily peace. But true peace arises as peace of the mind. Some people may be in a place that is right, pajamas, but the mind is not peaceful. Thoughts of this kind, thoughts of that kind, thinking about the wind, thinking about children, thinking about parents, thinking about money, thinking about the house that has not yet been completed, to be finished, to be done. So people must eat food, Indiana, doing meditation to calm the mind. Some people, jek, who has ever known, also is peace, trez, friend, receiving, cutting off, knowing, for example, being in a state with no loud sounds. If at home, be in the prayer room, close the doors and windows, so that sounds do not disturb. Do not go to predic, do not want to be a sound for the house, the sound of anyone in the house. If still receiving, you can close your eyes. You do not have to see anything. Close your eyes, close the doors and windows, and then sit or física still. This is peace, arising from cutting off receiving. But if still not ready, then say that one must train the mind to think, because if it thinks, or if it is allowed to stay, why does it think less, think more, go out to feel different things. But contemplation also finds this method. Even if it is good in many ways, it can be gained quickly, but the loss is that it is temporary contemplation. When one stops the practice, leaves the monastery or returns home, encounters loud sounds, encounters the actions and words of people in the house that are not pleasing, or turns on the mobile phone and sees a message, the boss demanding work or sending new work, or that there is a sudden event that does not help in any mood, then dissatisfaction arises. This is called temporary contemplation, because whenever one stops the practice, it is said to be unstable, it is temporary contemplation that requires a special time, and temporary contemplation is said to be APP, it moves, sticks to this temporary contemplation. But going to vadait standers, it has this weak point, which is that it is not constant. Contemplation arises in witnessdmien that has a tendency to sink, but when one pulls it back, a problem arises because the peace that pleases us is not constant. When it is not constant because there is sound, there is form, there is image, there is a phenomenon that makes it, when it disappears, it slips and generates satisfaction, like peace, being at home, being at home, this is peaceful, but when one returns and encounters someone saying something that is not pleasing to us, the peace is broken. It generates delusion, or what, just because there is a loud sound, anyone whose mind is peaceful, has dissatisfaction, there is a sound coming, sound of the world, the peace is broken when it passes, delusion, the self of dissatisfaction arises. People who stick, people who know only this kind of peace, not a few, will be people who are easily angered, easily irritated, because the peace that one seeks, or that one sticks to, will easily be broken. Anyone who makes a loud sound is not pleasing, anyone who says something not pleasing to the ear is not pleasing. Many people say that when parents return from a 5-day or 7-day practice in a monastery or in a meditation center, the parents come to the house, the day the parents will come home, the children immediately start working, because the parents have come home, there will be a lot of noise, this child, the mood is bad, remember, people are suspicious, why after the practice, authentication, then heated, the monk, with WHAT, what, the monk, has a feeling of flowing, latitude, that things with rangovali in the house, once, bad, we are.
Whether or not there is enough awareness to meet the arising of a feeling, if it is loose, the feeling arises from something. It is a table that has impacted. The sense organ is still there, the ear that hears the sound, the eye that sees the form. But in reality, there will be a feeling of Rin, a feeling of awareness arises. It is not like a measured expression that is drunk. Is it a sum? The feeling of awareness has pies, the letting go of the knowing of the feeling of awareness, the doing of Nirvana or meditation. It is not necessary to throw hissing, or to throw hissingti to be still. This is the Buddha’s sympathies, the awareness of the Buddha, which is interested in the Buddha’s utzh nine and that when the time comes to enter the mind, do not let go of the stability. You must make it throw hissing, it is still. Make it throw non hgi harness, there is no torch or applies sourd. This is a matter that must be careful. Uncle Pood, you have spoken before that thoughts always arise like breathing. Can you make the thoughts cease? You also said that in practice, it is not to extinguish thoughts, but rather to know them. If you say only this, it is enough. Know the mind that is thinking, that is settled. You said not to let the mind be entirely still, meaning do not sink into thought, do not let the mind go into a state of not knowing. You may think, but do not get involved in the arising of this self. We use it wrongly, which is to have mindfulness knowing the thoughts and moods, and then also to know other things. Through the gate of practice, we then open our eyes, see images, see who is walking by, coming and going. But when the mind is agitated, knowing the mind with the friend, we see it. This is called, if we do this often, it will generate observation itself. Observation because, once knowing the thoughts and knowing the moods, we can let go of those thoughts and moods. Because that also generates observation. It is because the mind is released from thoughts and moods, not because of not knowing, or only knowing, but because of knowing. Knowing here means knowing, giving non-observation in this mind. It does not arise from the mind having thoughts and moods, but it will arise from letting the thoughts come in, calming the mind, knowing that letting the mind sink into moods. It also sees substitution with the water, obviously, since it does not enter the lua, it does not come to destroy, does it? It does not destroy, but just that it is not beyond the water. But when the sensor enters the liquid, but then it is not calm, or is it not enough for the thought to arise, or is it not enough for the sound that impacts, loud sound, quiet sound, harsh sound, human voice, horse neigh, clear sound, it is not, not because of the path that sees, or someone or some text or image seen through the nose, for us here, it is an external mood. Even if the mind receives it, if it is not elaborated, it is not pleasing. Or even if it is elaborated into a thought of wind, but knowing that thought of wind, not letting it sink into thought, not letting the mind go into the wind, it is also not being blown away by satellites. It is said that there is water, there is water, there is mood, it does not make the liquid turbid. But the liquid is turbid, because the water enters the liquid. Our duty is to guard the mind so that the mood does not come in like 63 different societies. The heart should be GGG, so that it does not enter the liquid. Or here, meaning the city, also RIG-Jai, to work, it must be mindfulness, seeing clearly, knowing. Therefore, in any practice, it will not Haye maying, its cropchitåi économique, to be still, or to close the thoughts. It will think, it will think, but it will also let the mind know, know, the more flowing mindfulness there is, the more power there is, and when it arises according to the vector of the stability principle, observe, once knowing, knowing the mood, do not observe enough, not knowing, or observe enough to cut the scooter. If you know the non-attainment and the quin Assessment, it is ready to receive the sound of the buzze commemorat that arises, must, eye mone, because even if you hear the sound, the mind is not pleased. It also helps to make the chip of the gros impres, even if you return home, even if you go to work, even if you are in the middle, in the market, you can send it. The sound that comes, even if it is noisy, does not make the mind pleased. It is not necessary to be in the Buddha’s room, close the door, open the air, to be calm. Being in the open, working, doing things, the mind is also calm. This is calm in itself, which can be relied upon from practice. Next, it will be calm, not because of mindfulness, but calm through wisdom. This is also another aspect of attaining calm in Buddhism. In the Buddha’s Dhamma, the Buddha’s teaching is...