Revisions to "Guard the sense doors"- What does this mean, and what is it's application?

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The framework to guard your senses is outlined in the Cha Chakka Sutta Cha Chakka Sutta though there are more comprehensive dispositions also in other Suttas which covers other aspects also e.g. Satipatthana Sutta Dhammanupassana section.

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Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena

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Bhikshus, that one could make an end of suffering here and now, without abandoning lust for pleasurable feelings, without removing aversion towards painful feelings, without uprooting ignorance towards feelings that are neither pleasant nor painful this is impossibleIMPOSSIBLE.

Bhikshus, that one could make an end of suffering here and now, having abandoned lust for pleasurable feelings, having removed aversion towards painful feelings, having uprooted ignorance towards feelings that are neither pleasant nor painful this is possiblePOSSIBLE.

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Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena

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Also in many other suttas the following passage appears. The implication is do not crave and grasp the sensory experience.

Here, bhikshus, when a monk sees a form with the eye, he grasps neither its sign nor its detail.

So long he dwells unrestrained in that eye-faculty, evil, unwholesome states of covetousness and displeasure might overwhelm him, to that extent, he therefore keeps himself restrained.