Early Buddhism: Did the Buddha Teach "Bare" Awareness?

All things (dhammā) are constituted by the five aggregates. A continuation of the discussion on right view (MN 41), this time in conjunction with the Bāhiya sutta (Ud 1.10). For the previous talk on right view: • Early Buddhism: What i...
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[@sahassaransi_mw]

“When, firmly mindful, one sees a form,
One is not inflamed by lust for forms;
One experiences it with dispassionate mind
And does not remain holding it tightly.
One fares mindfully in such a way
That even as one sees the form,
And WHILE ONE UNDERGOES A FEELING -
Suffering is exhausted, not built up.
For one dismantling suffering thus, Nibbāna is said to be close by."
- Malunkyaputta Sutta

[@hz7988]

Excellent talk
Thank you 🙏

[@fruitionapt]

‘As he abides maintaining perspective of impermanence, dispassion, cessation, and relinquishment concurrently with those feelings, he does not assume anything in the world’.
MN 37

[@One_In_Training]

Thank you for another great discussion. I had a question on the opening comment on knowing that "pleasure is there by itself even though you didn't ask for it; and that gets to be felt like a problem"
When one knows that one must not 'delight' in the pleasure, the arisen pleasure can indeed seem daunting and scary - inasmuch as a pleasant feeling, is just as dangerous as a painful feeling (leading to a very visceral sense of all feeling is Dukkha).
How then does one avoid developing a 'fear' of the arisen pleasure; and how does one 'partake' in that pleasure (if it is not of a sensual nature), without 'delighting' in it. For delighting in ANY type of pleasure (even from non sensual causes) is being seen as dangerous.
Thank you !

[@SamanadipaHermitage]

The reason why the arisen pleasure seems daunting and scary is that the responsibility for where the delight begins has not been discerned. Just as you do not need to be afraid of bandits knocking on your door as long as you do not open the door, so too, you do not need to be afraid of the arisen pleasure as long as you know that you do not delight in it. The choice to delight can only become clear (on the mental level) once the coarse delight that occurs chiefly through breaking the precepts has been restrained. And this everybody can recognize.
For more on this topic, see this instructive talk th-cam.com/video/wc9XWIZ64Wc/w-d-xo.html

[@One_In_Training]

Thank you venerable sir 🙏