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AN 8.54 Dīghajāṇusutta: With Dīghajāṇu
Sir, we are laypeople who enjoy sensual pleasures and living at home with our children.
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AN 1.258-267 Foremost Laywomen
The foremost of my laywomen in first going for refuge is Sujātā the general’s daughter.
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AN 5.176 Pīti Sutta: Rapture
‘Let’s periodically enter & remain in seclusion & rapture.’ That’s how you should train yourself.
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AN 5.76 From… Dutiyayodhājīvasutta: Warriors (2nd)
Reverends, I am overcome with lust, mired in lust. I am unable to keep up the spiritual life.
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MN 66 From… Laḍukikopama Sutta: The Quail Simile
Suppose a quail were snared by a rotting creeper…
🏷️fetters
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MN 106 From… Āneñjasappāyasutta: Conducive to the Imperturbable
Mendicants, sensual pleasures are impermanent, hollow, false, and deceptive, made by illusion, cooed over by fools.
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Dhp 334-336 From… Taṇhā Vagga: Craving
The craving of a person who lives negligently spreads like a creeping vine.
🏷️craving
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Thag 16.4 Raṭṭhapāla
Sensual pleasures—variegated, enticing, sweet—in various ways disturb the mind.
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AN 6.50 Indriyasaṁvarasutta: Sense Restraint
Suppose there was a tree that lacked branches and foliage.
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MN 145 From… Puṇṇovādasutta: Advice to Puṇṇa
There are sights known by the eye that are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing.
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Ud 7.4 Kāmesu Satta Sutta: Attached to Sensual Pleasures (2)
On that occasion, most of the people in Sāvatthī were excessively attached to sensual pleasures.
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Snp 4.1 Kāmasutta: Sensual Pleasures
If a mortal desires sensual pleasure and their desire succeeds, they definitely become elated, having got what they want.
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AN 5.200 From… Nissāraṇīyasutta: Elements of Escape
This is how the escape from sensual pleasures is explained.
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MN 54 From… Potaliyasutta: With Potaliya the Householder
Gnawing on such a fleshless skeleton, would that dog still get rid of its hunger?
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MN 75 From… Māgaṇḍiyasutta: With Māgaṇḍiya
In the same way, sensual pleasures of the past, future, and present are painful to touch, fiercely burning and scorching.
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SN 46.51 From… Āhārasutta: Nourishing
I will teach you what fuels and what starves the five hindrances and the seven awakening factors.
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MN 146 From… Nandakovādasutta: Advice from Nandaka
Suppose a deft butcher or their apprentice was to kill a cow and carve it with a sharp meat cleaver.
🏷️greed
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Iti 109 Nadīsotasutta: The River Current
“Suppose, bhikkhus, a man was being borne along by the current of a river that seemed pleasant and agreeable.
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Snp 4.2 Guhaṭṭhakasutta: Eight on the Cave
Trapped in a cave, thickly overspread, sunk in delusion they stay.
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SN 47.7 Makkaṭasutta: A Monkey
But a foolish and reckless monkey goes up to the tar and grabs it with a hand.
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SN 46.55 From… Saṅgāravasutta: With Saṅgārava—Sensual Desire
Suppose there was a bowl of water that was mixed with dye such as red lac, turmeric, indigo, or rose madder.
