Shi Heng Yi
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Without any recipe of how did you get there, it just happens.
And that's what I trust.
All of them.
Sensory desire, aversion, ill will, like monkey mind, let's say.
Sloth and torpor, so feeling like not being able to move forward.
And at the end also, what is the last one?
Doubt.
Skeptical doubt.
Doubt.
Okay.
At the end, you can all view them as clouds covering the sky.
Very simple like this.
Five hindrances of what?
In that story of how I named it was, you're on the journey up on the hill.
Let's say you have a mission, you have a goal, a very clear mission you have.
And there are five hindrances that would actually stop you or make it difficult for you to continue your clear path.
Why?
Because when those five hindrances appear, they are covering your view.
you're starting to lose the path what you initially wanted.
But now in the Buddhist context, those were named the five hindrances like we just named them before, meaning you are very, very easily irritated by temptation.