Hillside Hermitage Podcast

Hillside Hermitage Podcast
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If you wish to support the monks of the Hillside and this channel you can do so by donating at: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us For other forms of Dhamma Teachings see: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/teachings

  1. 09/17/2025

    The Wrong Path Feels Easier: Why the Type of Practice Cannot Be Chosen

    Pleasant vs. unpleasant pathWhy the puthujjana isn't on the path and how their efforts should be directedNot confusing management for the actual uprooting of sufferingThe right and wrong way to practice asubha (non-beautiful) If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

    28 min

  2. 09/17/2025

    To Be or Not To Be...

    What is meant by "being" and "non-being", and what is the gratification, danger and escape in the case of these two views? (MN 11) The gradual abandonment of craving If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

    18 min

  3. 09/17/2025

    Whether Householder or Monk: The Right and Wrong Way

    Sutta study of SN 45.24 and AN 5.57 where the Buddha explains how whether for a householder or for one gone forth, the path to the Right view and the objects of reflections are the same. If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

    43 min

  4. 09/17/2025

    Right View or Just Virtue?

    Peace as a result of virtue vs peace of the right viewWhat, apart from virtue and sense restraint is required for right view?How to keep the practice alive If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

    8 min

  5. 09/17/2025

    Turning Discomfort Into Freedom

    Why our desire for control leads to discomfort, why anxiety feels more unbearable than pain, and how understanding it can transform it into liberation. Instead of being weighed down by uncertainty, the same lack of safety can be unburdened, weightless, and free. (attachments and anxiety, philosophy of attachment, anxiety vs pain, control and suffering, weightless mind) If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

    12 min

  6. 09/17/2025

    The Body You Live In vs. The Body You See

    The difference between the background lived body and the body you actively attend to, how dependence on sense objects shapes your threshold of being, and where the assumption of self takes root. If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

    9 min

  7. 09/17/2025

    Clarity Over Novelty - A Different "Meditation"

    Many approach the practice thinking that it means hours of meditation or chasing special experiences. But true Dhamma practice is a lot simpler—and far more profound. Why “meditation” in the modern sense isn’t the core of practiceHow to develop clarity by taking responsibility for your actionsWhy novelty and spiritual experiences are distractionsHow to overcome the pressure of tradition and the sense of “duty” in Buddhist practice If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

    12 min

  8. 09/17/2025

    This is why the craving never ends

    Sutta study - AN 10.62 — Taṇhā Sutta (The Discourse on Craving) Why is there no first point of craving manifested?Undoing everything, here-and-now, that prevents you from the knowledge-and-liberation Nature of yoniso manasikara and practical examples of how to develop it If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: ⁠⁠https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us/⁠

    52 min
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If you wish to support the monks of the Hillside and this channel you can do so by donating at: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us For other forms of Dhamma Teachings see: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/teachings

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  • Creator
    Hillside Hermitage Podcast
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    288
  • Rating
    Clean
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