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'The Holy Life' (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 32 mentions

• um senses world life sense pleasure all that the relationship with that is
• uh what what the path says about what we do is sense pleasure because that's related to how awakening envisages a
• related to how awakening envisages a relationship with sense pleasure and tied in with that then is a relationship
• there's pleasant blade and a pleasant sensation when this sense pleasure it uh or the or the possibility of sense
• imagination that goes with it and we're reducing to just sense pleasure just sense pleasure so that when i'm
• reducing to just sense pleasure just sense pleasure so that when i'm the in a situation which involves sense
• the in a situation which involves sense pleasure there is just sense pleasure and i'm not adding any more to it with
• process view as if there is just this moment of bare sense pleasure which can be revealed with bare attention when
• just this bearer process of bare registration of sense pleasure and yes it's enjoyable but we just register that
• compare that with a view a third view of um sense pleasure which would perhaps make a distinction between papancha and
• so that for example if we talk about sense pleasure eros in in touching a lover in the in the touch of two lovers
• going on there or is it just sense pleasure plus papancha
• really communicated and felt in that touch is a combination of sense pleasure and care
• probably be missing something and to call it just sense pleasure and care again would be missing something
• you know this tantric movement is not just about sense pleasure and about just enjoying sense pleasure something very
• just about sense pleasure and about just enjoying sense pleasure something very cheap version seem to mistake it for
• is seeing appearances as divine is that just sense pleasure is it is it just sense pleasure and papancha or is it
• just sense pleasure is it is it just sense pleasure and papancha or is it soul is it the movement of soulmaking
• world of the senses and and in this case particular sense pleasure and actually if we expand that a little
• relating a certain way of conceiving um of senses and sense pleasure and the whole movement of what awakening is and
• um different uh kind of castings of the path in relationship to sense pleasure and in the first one
• what's received in the sense is the sense pleasure um is is regarded whether it's pleasant
• emptiness of that very sense perception itself of the sense pleasure of the sense unpleasantness whatever
• a fantasy and involved here regarding sense pleasure uh vadana and world there's always a way of looking in
• relationship with with the senses with vader now with sense pleasure or unpleasant whatever is with world and
• keep going to the refrigerator what's going on there to sense pleasure in different forms and to uh what they were
• um our addiction to the to sense pleasure and our need for sense pleasure um
• whatever it is i'm addicted to sense sense pleasure so that as is characteristic of the
• imaginal they gain dimensionality food is not just sense pleasure it's it's uh even eager even self starts
• to get image the whole world of the senses and of sense pleasures starts to gain dimensionality and through the
• and in relationship to the senses and sense pleasure um images await you images that work for
• um what's the difference between seeking sense pleasure seeking an escape of something or other incense pleasure

Sense Desire - (November Solitary) 19 mentions

• talks it's very difficult not to come across the references to sense pleasure and senses are it's totally littered
• should should think in this way i have seen the misery of sense pleasures it's a strong language i've seen the misery
• a strong language i've seen the misery of sense pleasures we don't usually think of it this way
• quite a lot and you know it's pretty clear basically the sense pleasures are like candy they're like sugar
• is addiction there is a relationship with sense pleasure that it has become all-consuming to the point where we we
• some relationship with some form of sense pleasure that's affecting the health in some way
• but how important is it to us the business of sense pleasure it's actually extremely important to us partly we
• often think this but it's a thing this is all i've got is my sense pleasure and and now you're someone saying i'll take
• actually because of availability and that we get sense desire sense pleasure it's completely available to us as human
• of this whole area sense pleasure senses are and renunciation the whole thing i'm really
• begins to become obvious so some sense pleasure or other there is a happiness in that don't don't pretend
• in our minds and we do together socially around sense pleasure gonna be great
• um can sense pleasure withstand my full attention
• that the the joys and the pleasures the happiness of sense pleasure to to deny that they exist not not to not to do
• tibetan teacher togma sangpo said sense pleasures are like salt water the more we indulge the more we thirst
• actually see when there's grasping after sense pleasures if you pay attention a delicate way to
• feel it close in the movement of grasping towards sense pleasure and you may feel as if as you practice
• thing just for the sake of the momentary feeling of sense pleasure or is there something in my connection in my
• because we don't suffer a lot in the west over not getting sense pleasures it's not you know we can keep getting

Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma... 16 mentions

• in the body and sense experience and sense pleasure it's not for a glorification of the body it's not to
• attached to the body and to the senses and to sense pleasures and experience they therefore body and sense experience
• reigning in the eros with regard to sense pleasure certainly rate raining in the craving but it doesn't make the
• basket so to speak um but he says sense pleasures are like fleshless bones it's like throwing a
• face is going to get burnt uh he continues the sense pleasures are like a pit of burning coals
• extreme kind of thrust of teaching regarding sense pleasures certainly in the insight meditation
• reverse this teaching on in regard to sense pleasures and we'll maybe say a bit more about that let's see
• teaching in in relation to sense experience and sense pleasure and there's reasons to that which will
• um but uh regarding that and regarding sense pleasure there's this sometimes it seems to me or has seemed to me and and
• um there's a kind of confusion especially regarding sense pleasure even more than um sexuality or there's kind
• um whereas in in relation to wanting a sense pleasures nice food nice sights sounds and etc
• veil of images and thoughts and concepts around sense pleasure cut it remove it so that we can just meet experience
• puncher and practice bare attention to sense pleasure and then it's just a moment of pleasantness and there's
• transcendent beyond all sense experience so here sense pleasure sense experience cutting by puncher really means
• that what beauty is just reducible to sense pleasure and i can sort of i'm best served by kind of giving a bear
• not the monovalancing not the reduction not just plain or mere sense pleasure pleasing sense experiences

True to Your Deepest Desires (Talk and Short Guided Meditation) - (Practising the Jhānas) 10 mentions

• independent of someone needing to praise me or some sense pleasure or something these are the things that transform if
• pretty much independent of what someone is giving me or a sense pleasures etc do you understand i don't know it's
• slaking the thirst for what we're really looking for chasing the sense pleasures or the praise or whatever it is
• should be pursued and developed and when he talks about sense pleasures uh he talks about them as a pit of
• you know that's the sort of image he gives for sense pleasures it looks like a nice piece of grass or whatever it is
• pursued and developed and he talks about sense pleasures there's a whole list of like pretty uh pretty extreme uh
• like pretty uh pretty extreme uh negative uh similes for sense pleasures is is it or was it
• relation to these kinds of pleasures sense pleasure and journey pleasure and reverse the buddha's concerns
• reverse the buddha's concerns regarding sense pleasure journey pleasure and and attachment to either
• um really difficult kinds of attachment to sense pleasures and in this case to certain uh uh

The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 3) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 7 mentions

• we differentiate also the buddha outline cleaning to sense pleasures clinging to views clinging to customs and habits
• but that's one level of desire okay desire for sense pleasures in in that in that context
• um there's there are other movements that are not just about sense pleasure and relief
• desires is that really what we're after sense pleasures and happiness or some kind of uh shoring up of the
• from all our desires certainly sometimes we're seeking sense pleasure to talk about this certainly sometimes i'm
• um sense pleasures are not going to fulfill me
• is that is that is it just ease or sense pleasure i mean it might be

Approaches to the Hindrances - (November Solitary) 6 mentions

• and in the usual order they're given uh craving for sense pleasures is the for is the first one the mind is locked is
• poked into a desire for some some or other sense pleasure second one is aversion or ill will and
• southern top or restlessness uh craving for sense pleasure is is the next one now this is interesting sometimes we
• energy is around when this is craving for sense pleasure how does it actually feel
• is it a happy state is it happy to be craving sense pleasure is it happy just to be really really clear about
• sources of nourishment in life so that this little sense pleasure actually begins to pale in comparison

Working with the Hindrances - (Samatha Meditation) 6 mentions

• talk about them in more detail they are first ones craving for sense pleasures or sense desire i could say
• the first one craving for sense pleasure or sense desire so this is huge these are huge
• senses that craving for sense pleasure what's the difference between that and say
• pleasure and that level just maximizing my sense pleasure again all this is just questions where
• um what happens when we only follow sort of as much sense pleasure as we want extreme sense gratification there's a
• okay so craving for a sense pleasure aversion third one this sloth and talker

Joy - (New Year Retreat) 4 mentions

• it's a pleasure that's not based on the senses it's not based on sense pleasure so this this is quite a significant
• matures a maturing of the relationship with sense pleasure and so
• rather than being hungry for it and sort of reliant on sense pleasure it's we can be open to the pleasure through the
• different than pleasure different than sense pleasure is actually

Beauty and the Buddha - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 3 mentions

• buddha talked about in the palikana's sense pleasures being like a snake's mouth or a pit of burning coals or a
• being pleasant in the senses and um more than sense pleasure leading to a kind of craving so most people will say
• beauty to the world and in the senses it's all just craving at sense pleasure and then because of that implicit

Blessing Life - The Power of the Generous Heart - (Unbinding the Heart) 3 mentions

• tree so we confuse sense pleasure with happiness
• is a very common uh confusion sense pleasure and joy they're different things or we get into a kind
• intentions in our life sometimes it's full of chasing sense pleasure and convenience and a little bit of comfort