Week 171 - Paṭhama Hāliddikāni Sutta: "The Householder Hāliddikāni," Pt .1 (SN 22.3).

Описание: Week 171 - Paṭhama Hāliddikāni Sutta: The Householder Hāliddikāni - Pt. 1 (SN 22.3). (Recorded on February 14th, 2026).

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Today's sutta exploration session was devoted to the Paṭhama Hāliddikāni Sutta, where Ven. Mahākaccāna answers a question from a layperson, who asks the Venerable to unpack a verse that Lord Buddha had taught earlier. The main theme of the verse having to do with living the home life into homelessness, the Venerable now explains what 'homelessness' truly means, other than the fact of not having a stable physical home, that would be the case for a monk.

Here, however, we discover that being 'homeless' is also and especially a metaphor for not looking for refuge in forms, in sounds, in tastes, in odors, in touches, and in thoughts. In other words, the six sense spheres are the real home the unlearned ordinary wordling, the puthujjana, deludedly takes as his/her refuge, constantly wondering from one 'home' to another, meaning, from one sense experience to another, never satiated and always disappointed, ceaselessly searching for more...
Thus, it is by seeing through the transience and therefore dissatisfaction and insubstantiality of sense experience that the noble ones no longer seek refuge in the senses, who then truly become free from suffering, truly 'homeless,' and free from any shackles. 

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