#IndexEntry #Buddhology
### Top 10 referring talks
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<a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a> | 82 | <a data-href="2019 Practising the Jhanas" class="internal-link">2019 Practising the Jhanas</a>
<a data-href="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat" class="internal-link">Orienting to This Jhana Retreat</a> | 14 | <a data-href="2019 Practising the Jhanas" class="internal-link">2019 Practising the Jhanas</a>
<a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> | 11 | <a data-href="2017 Eros Unfettered" class="internal-link">2017 Eros Unfettered</a>
<a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 1" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 1</a> | 10 | <a data-href="2017 Eros Unfettered" class="internal-link">2017 Eros Unfettered</a>
<a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> | 7 | <a data-href="2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a>
<a data-href="Joy (talk)" class="internal-link">Joy (talk)</a> | 7 | <a data-href="2007 New Years Retreat Insight Meditation" class="internal-link">2007 New Years Retreat Insight Meditation</a>
<a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> | 4 | <a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a>
<a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1</a> | 3 | <a data-href="2017 Eros Unfettered" class="internal-link">2017 Eros Unfettered</a>
<a data-href="Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 2" class="internal-link">Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 2</a> | 2 | <a data-href="2020 Vajra Music" class="internal-link">2020 Vajra Music</a>
<a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> | 2 | <a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a>
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<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > With the abandoning of the hindrances there arises the first jhana" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#With the abandoning of the hindrances there arises the first jhana" class="internal-link">"With the abandoning of the hindrances, there arises the first jhana"</a> | 6 | <a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > In jhana practice we want antidotes to work against the hindrances" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#In jhana practice we want antidotes to work against the hindrances" class="internal-link">In jhana practice, we want antidotes to work against the hindrances</a> | 6 | <a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > a Ill-will i Metta to the one Im upset with ii to myself" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#a Ill-will i Metta to the one I'm upset with ii to myself" class="internal-link">(a) Ill-will, (i) Metta to the one I'm upset with (ii) to myself</a> | 6 | <a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > There are subtle hindrances to work and experiment with" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#There are subtle hindrances to work and experiment with" class="internal-link">There are subtle hindrances to work and experiment with</a> | 6 | <a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > The relationship to restlessness can feed or quieten it" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#The relationship to restlessness can feed or quieten it" class="internal-link">The relationship to restlessness can feed or quieten it</a> | 5 | <a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat > Dont believe the hindrances and dont take them personally" data-href="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat#Don't believe the hindrances and don't take them personally" class="internal-link">Don't believe the hindrances, and don't take them personally</a> | 5 | <a data-href="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat" class="internal-link">Orienting to This Jhana Retreat</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 1 > Fetters and arahantship" data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 1#Fetters and arahantship" class="internal-link">Fetters and arahantship</a> | 5 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 1" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 1</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > Even within a jhana there can be subtle hindrances around" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#Even within a jhana there can be subtle hindrances around" class="internal-link">Even within a jhana, there can be subtle hindrances around</a> | 4 | <a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > 5 Hindrances are gold ore theres something really precious here" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#5 Hindrances are gold ore there's something really precious here" class="internal-link">(5) Hindrances are gold ore, there's something really precious here</a> | 4 | <a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat > Hindrances as the dark rich underbelly of jhana practice" data-href="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat#Hindrances as the dark rich underbelly of jhana practice" class="internal-link">Hindrances as the dark, rich underbelly of jhana practice</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat" class="internal-link">Orienting to This Jhana Retreat</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3 > Is there something missing in the way we categorize our desires and what we seek from them" data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3#Is there something missing in the way we categorize our desires and what we seek from them" class="internal-link">Is there something missing in the way we categorize our desires and what we seek from them?</a> | 4 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Joy (talk) > Piti is the physical aspect of spiritual joy not based on sense pleasure" data-href="Joy (talk)#Piti is the physical aspect of spiritual joy not based on sense pleasure" class="internal-link">Piti is the physical aspect of spiritual joy, not based on sense pleasure</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Joy (talk)" class="internal-link">Joy (talk)</a>
### Terms with 20+ co-occurrences
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[[Jhanas]] | 17 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a> (12) · <a data-href="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat" class="internal-link">Orienting to This Jhana Retreat</a> (3) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (1) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 1" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 1</a> (1)</span>
[[Metta]] | 15 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (4) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> (3) · <a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a> (2) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1</a> (1)</span>
[[Mind]] | 13 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a> (7) · <a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (3) · <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> (1) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (1)</span>
[[Desire]] | 12 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> (4) · <a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a> (3) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1</a> (3) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 2" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 2</a> (1)</span>
[[Insight]] | 12 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a> (11) · <a data-href="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat" class="internal-link">Orienting to This Jhana Retreat</a> (1)</span>
[[Aversion]] | 11 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a> (6) · <a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (2) · <a data-href="Joy (talk)" class="internal-link">Joy (talk)</a> (1)</span>
[[Buddha]] | 11 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a> (5) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 1" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 1</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> (2) · <a data-href="Joy (talk)" class="internal-link">Joy (talk)</a> (1)</span>
[[Craving]] | 9 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> (4) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 1" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 1</a> (2) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1</a> (1) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 2" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 2</a> (1)</span>
[[Dharma]] | 9 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> (3) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1</a> (2) · <a data-href="Joy (talk)" class="internal-link">Joy (talk)</a> (2) · <a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a> (1)</span>
[[Retreat]] | 9 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a> (4) · <a data-href="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat" class="internal-link">Orienting to This Jhana Retreat</a> (2) · <a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (1) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (1)</span>
### Quotes
**<a data-href="Joy (talk)" class="internal-link">Joy (talk)</a>**
<span class="counts"><a data-href="2007 New Years Retreat Insight Meditation" class="internal-link">2007 New Years Retreat Insight Meditation</a></span>
> And so, rather than being hungry for it and sort of reliant on sense pleasure, we can be open to the pleasure through the senses, but it's actually a sense of wonder or mystery through the senses that we're tuning into more and more, rather than the aspect of it being pleasant or unpleasant... <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Joy (talk) > Piti is the physical aspect of spiritual joy not based on sense pleasure" data-href="Joy (talk)#Piti is the physical aspect of spiritual joy not based on sense pleasure" class="internal-link">Piti is the physical aspect of spiritual joy, not based on sense pleasure</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1</a>**
<span class="counts"><a data-href="2017 Eros Unfettered" class="internal-link">2017 Eros Unfettered</a></span>
> [E]ros is more than _mettā_ ; it's not the same as craving; it's not even just wholesome desire, _hitacchanda,_ or desire that leads to less suffering. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1 > We need a more sophisticated Dharma psychology" data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1#We need a more sophisticated Dharma psychology" class="internal-link">We need a more sophisticated Dharma psychology</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat" class="internal-link">Orienting to This Jhana Retreat</a>**
<span class="counts"><a data-href="2019 Practising the Jhanas" class="internal-link">2019 Practising the Jhanas</a></span>
> Hindrances are life afflictions. They don't just come in meditation. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat > Hindrances as the dark rich underbelly of jhana practice" data-href="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat#Hindrances as the dark rich underbelly of jhana practice" class="internal-link">Hindrances as the dark, rich underbelly of jhana practice</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a>**
<span class="counts"><a data-href="2019 Practising the Jhanas" class="internal-link">2019 Practising the Jhanas</a></span>
> Once the _jhānas,_ and even all eight _jhānas,_ are maybe accessible and regular visitors or explorations, etc. - even once all that is kind of up and running and going and wonderful, the hindrances will still arise at times. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > With the abandoning of the hindrances there arises the first jhana" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#With the abandoning of the hindrances there arises the first jhana" class="internal-link">"With the abandoning of the hindrances, there arises the first jhana"</a>_</span>
> If you come into an interview and you report to me that you just didn't have any hindrances, I'd just say you're not paying attention. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > Watch out for the habit of letting-be in standard mindfulness practice" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#Watch out for the habit of letting-be in standard mindfulness practice" class="internal-link">Watch out for the habit of letting-be in standard mindfulness practice</a>_</span>
> When restlessness comes up, we have aversion to the restlessness. It's unpleasant, the very sense of restlessness. And that aversion to the restlessness feeds the whole thing. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > The relationship to restlessness can feed or quieten it" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#The relationship to restlessness can feed or quieten it" class="internal-link">The relationship to restlessness can feed or quieten it</a>_</span>
> **Bring the attention back to myself, and actually notice and feel the _dukkha_ of that ill-will _here_ .** _It's in_ my _heart. There's a taste in my mouth. It's a flavour in my energy body and my consciousness. It's_ dukkha. It's painful. So I'm not trying to change the ill-will. I just come back, and I feel what's happening. Don't judge, just: "What does it feel like? Oh, it's _dukkha_." And feel the pain of it. I just have to let my consciousness touch the pain there. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > a Ill-will i Metta to the one Im upset with ii to myself" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#a Ill-will i Metta to the one I'm upset with ii to myself" class="internal-link">(a) Ill-will, (i) Metta to the one I'm upset with (ii) to myself</a>_</span>
> Instead of the automatic, natural aversion to the hindrances, I'm actually saying, "Come, come, I'll take this." But it has heart in it. It has this, "I'm willing to take this suffering right now. I'm opening myself to the suffering for the sake of the release from suffering of someone else, somewhere." So it's a kind of, you could say, 'magical thinking' - it doesn't matter - using your imagination, whatever. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > Exchanging happiness of self and other" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#Exchanging happiness of self and other" class="internal-link">Exchanging happiness of self and other</a>_</span>
> I'm playing with and experimenting with all that, and I can use all my ingenuity and creativity in how I relate to hindrances or what might help. And at the same time, I have a firm resolve. I'm not just going to give up now. I'm not just going to get up and walk away, or just sit through it and say, "Oh, whatever. Who cares." There's this combination of working actively, of being creative and ingenious, and a firm resolve and patience, all together. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > Im patient while Im working with the hindrances" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#I'm patient while I'm working with the hindrances" class="internal-link">I'm patient while I'm working with the hindrances</a>_</span>
> Hindrances - don't take them personally. They're a human thing. They're like facts of being human, and the arising of a hindrance doesn't mean anything about my capability as a meditator or my worthiness as a human being. That's really, really important. So, can I encourage that attitude? And that's part of where we want to move towards. That's part of the gift of _jhāna_ practice. We begin, after a while, to see: it's not personal. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > 3 Do not take the hindrances personally they are a fact of being human" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#3 Do not take the hindrances personally they are a fact of being human" class="internal-link">(3) Do not take the hindrances personally, they are a fact of being human</a>_</span>
> [T]his development of subtlety and refinement and discrimination - that also happens in regard to the hindrances. In terms of our overall trajectory, this recognition and working with the subtlety of the spectrum of the hindrance is also part of that whole development of subtlety. Yes, it's much nicer, attuning and discerning to subtle differences of _this_ kind of exquisite peacefulness versus _that_ kind of exquisite peacefulness, but in terms of developing the whole subtlety - which again, is so important for our emotional life and all the rest of it - that's important too. It's all subtlety. It's all discrimination. It's all attunement. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > Development of subtelty and refinement and discrimination also happens in regard to the hindrances" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#Development of subtelty and refinement and discrimination also happens in regard to the hindrances" class="internal-link">Development of subtelty and refinement and discrimination also happens in regard to the hindrances</a>_</span>
> So, over a long time of _jhāna_ practice, there is this movement of shaving away the gross, getting down to the hindrances, and then even more subtle. But they stay. They're part of the deal. And we need to be okay with that, really up for that. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > Over time self-view manifest less as papanca and more as pure hindrance" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#Over time self-view manifest less as papanca and more as pure hindrance" class="internal-link">Over time, self-view manifest less as papanca and more as pure hindrance</a>_</span>