Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
Another session to accompany the fourth module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series looking into Buddha's Gradual Instructions to Lay People on DANGER IN SENSUAL PLEASURES (kāmānaṁ ādīnavaṁ)  
In this additional session, we study the Buddha's teaching to householder Potaliya, who thinks he has cut off all his worldly affairs and learn HOW TO MEDITATE ON THE SIMILES IN THE POTALIYA SUTTA (MN 54) in a simplified way. the Buddha explains to Potaliya the true meaning of cutting off of affairs and teaches him how to contemplate the great suffering, great despair and great danger in sensual pleasures. This is important so we can acknowledge this danger, decline, and defilement in all sensual pleasures and start breaking the bonds we have towards them using effort, wisdom and direct understanding.   
NOTE - this is a simplified explanation of the powerful meditation that is given in the Potaliya Sutta  
In this session we give a brief overview of this sutta, then go through in more detail each of the seven similes taught by the Buddha, which are: 

— Meatless Bone (skeleton) 
— Piece of Meat 
— Blazing Grass Torch 
— Charcoal Pit 
— Dream 
— Borrowed Goods 
— Fruit on a Tree  

A Guided Meditation will be published to go with this session, so we can practise how to meditate on this seven similes taught by the Buddha, in order to realise the truth of the danger in sensual pleasures and to then be able to choose more wisely.  
To read the Potaliya Sutta (MN 54) in full - https://suttacentral.net/mn54/en/bodhi 
An electronic copy of the "Slide summarising the Buddha's seven similes for sensual pleasures from the Potaliya Sutta (MN 54)", discussed in this Dhamma Session has been posted (and pinned) to the Sutta Meditation Series Telegram channel (https://t.me/suttameditationseries)
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A VIDEO of this FULL SESSION with presentation slides has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vogWrLBkmiI
Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai

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