Simply This Moment - Buddhist Meditation and Theravada ...

five hindrances are manifestations of all these things. People in the world say all sortsof foolish things about what upādāna is, what craving is. But here we’re seeingthrough bare experience what these things are. We’re not just reading the menu, wetaste the food. We see what craving is and how pernicious it is, how difficult it is totrack down. Upādāna is really slippery but once we actually see through it that leadsto the eradication of the five hindrances. Each one of these five hindrances is amanifestation of craving. Once we actually see that, we understand how craving is sodeep and why it is so hard to uproot. The only way to uproot craving and attachmentis through the practise of The Eightfold Path, culminating in the jhānas.These are the insights we get through contemplating the five hindrances. We knowthe five hindrances completely. We know the antidotes and we become one who, as itsays in the suttas, can enter the jhānas with ease, with no difficulty, with no trouble.We know the way in, we know the obstacles, and we know the remedies. Why shouldthere be any difficulty? We’re focussing on the practice that leads to jhāna and on theway we’re gaining some very powerful insights into the nature of craving andupādāna.So please bear these words in mind. May they bear fruit in your practice.247