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*Dear Bhikku Samahita,

 

Dozens of your posts have been allowed so that you would be satisfied in

whatever goal you wish to achieve. It is clear that you have no desire

to actually participate in this sangha and interact with the community

in anyway or listen to and consider other points of view.

 

Anyone who wishes to contact you and join your group has had an ample

opportunity and can do so.

 

To use the sangha only for promotion of your philosophy is essentially a

misuse of this list.

 

Therefore, you are now on moderation.

 

Be happy and in peace.

 

May all beings be free from sorrow.

 

Love to all

Harsha*

 

 

Bhikkhu Samahita wrote:

>

> Friends:

>

> *_How does Sense-Desire Muddle up the Mind?_**__*

>

> A Brahmin Priest once asked the Blessed Buddha:

> Master Gotama, what is the cause of being unable to remember even

> something that

> has been memorized over a long period & also that which has not been

> memorized?

> Brahmin, when mind is obsessed by sense-desire, beset & dominated by

> sense-desire,

> and one does not understand any actual safe escape from this arisen

> sense-desire,

> in that very moment, one neither sees nor understands, what is truly

> advantageous,

> neither for oneself, nor for others, nor for both... On such

> occasions, even texts,

> that have been long memorized, cannot be recalled by mind. Why is this

> neglect so?

> Imagine a bucket of water mixed with dyes or paints: Yellow, blue, and

> crimson red.

> If a man with good eye-sight were to inspect the reflection of his own

> face in it,

> he would neither see nor recognize it, as it really is! So too,

> brahmin, when mind is

> obsessed by sense-desire, beset & dominated by sense-desire, on that

> occasion even

> those texts, that have been long memorized does not recur to the mind,

> not to speak

> of those texts, events and things, that have not been memorized at all…

>