WHY IT'S DIFFICULT TO RENUNCIATE THE WORLD (FULL DHAMMA SESSION, Poya)

<p>Welcome back to the <strong>Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.</strong></p> <p>This is the <strong>FULL DHAMMA SESSION conducted on ILL POYA (18 November 2021) via zoom on "WHY IT'S DIFFICULT TO RENUNCIATE THE WORLD"</strong>, how to contemplate the <em>Hāliddikāni Sutta </em>(SN 22.3)</p> <p>This is a teaching to lay people, with Venerable Mahākaccāna elaborating on the Buddha's verse:&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>"Having left home to roam without abode,<br> In the village the sage is intimate with none;<br> Rid of sensual pleasures, without expectations,<br> He would not engage people in dispute" &nbsp;</strong></p> <p>A very important teaching about the importance of not making a home for consciousness to establish and not roaming with our sense faculties to construct (and reconstruct) the world, with some very practical application.</p> <p>This Dhamma session consolidates and expands on many of the instructions, insight pathways and meditations we have studied over the past few poya and other Dhamma sessions.</p> <p><u><em><strong>Note</strong></em></u><em><strong> - This is a broad session on the Hāliddikāni Sutta </strong></em><strong>(SN 22.3)</strong><em><strong>, and we may have another session to go through a powerful meditation on this sutta</strong></em></p> <p>In this Dhamma session we cover:</p> <ul> <li>— Tips &amp; reminders</li> <li>— Why it’s difficult to renunciate the world</li> <li>— Introduction to the <em>HāliddikāniSutta </em>(SN 22.3)</li> <li>— Venerable Mahākaccāna’s detailed explanation of Buddha’s brief statement in 3 parts</li> <li>— What is a sage (muni)?</li> <li>— How to meditate on Halidakkani Sutta</li> </ul> <p>Some of the suttas covered directly or indirectly in this session:</p> <ul> <li>— Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33)</li> <li>— Suttavebhaṅgiya (Pe 9)</li> <li>— Pamādavihārī Sutta (SN35.97)</li> <li>— Loka Sutta (SN 1.70)</li> <li>— Lokapañhā Sutta (SN 35.82)</li> <li>— Cunda Sutta (Ud 8.5)</li> <li>— Candūpamā Sutta (SN 16.3)</li> <li>— Kulūpaka Sutta(SN 16.4)</li>