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

 

On how to prevent the mental hindrances see: http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm on Hedonismhttp://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.1-2.htm on Sexhttp://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4.htm on Cure http://www.what-buddha-said.org/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4c.htm

Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V:121-2] section 46: The Links. 55: To Sangarava...

 

 

 

 

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