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Letting Go of Everything | Detachment from 6 Sense Spheres & 5 Groups of Clinging | Ajahn Dhammasiha

Ajahn Dhammasīha reminds us that the ultimate end of our whole Dhamma practice is letting go.

Letting go of what?

Letting go of everything!

Everything means all sankhāras, all conditioned phenomena.

Once the heart lets go of all conditioned phenomena, it realizes the Unconditioned Deathless Reality, Nibbāna.

'Everything' (the Universe, the All) in the teaching of the noble ones is the six sense spheres, the 6 internal sense faculties and their external objects ('Saḷāyatana'):

Eye and Forms

Ear and Sounds

Nose and Fragrances

Tongue and Flavours

Body and Bodily Sensations/Feelings

Mind and…

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