Sensual Pleasures are Painful

By Ajahn Suchart

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14 pages

We have to practice step by step to attain succeeding levels of happiness, starting with the happiness that arises from giving, to the happiness from keeping the precepts, not hurting others, to the happiness from samadhi or mental discipline.

A simple and straightforward but powerful summary of the path to wisdom encouraging us all to strive for real, lasting happiness.

About: Buddhist Practice Vipassanā Right View The Buddhist Path Buddhist Meditation Buddhist Philosophy Teachings for Monastics

Featured in the course, " The Practice of Buddhism."

Published in 1997.

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