Delight ☁️ dark quality View in explorer
4 discourses
A mental quality of relishing and taking pleasure in what is experienced—especially in sensuality or the prospect of continued becoming. When it fastens onto gratification, it nourishes craving and keeps the mind circling around what it wants to experience again.
Also known as: relishing, enjoyment, taking pleasure
Pāli: nandi
The venerable Udaya approaches the Buddha with questions about liberation through final knowledge, the fettering of the world, and how to live mindfully for consciousness to cease.
By what is the world held in bondage? What is its means of locomotion? By the abandoning of what, is every bond cut?
Likening consciousness to a sunbeam entering through a window and becoming established on a wall or on the ground, the Buddha reveals how a future renewed existence comes to be through lust, delight, and craving.
The venerable Posāla asks the Buddha how to guide a meditator who has transcended all perception of form and is established in the sphere of Nothingness.