Non-restraint ☁️ dark
2 discourses
Synonyms:
unguarded in sense faculties, not watching the sense doors, grasping at prominent features or details of sense objects
Pāli term:
asaṃvara
In Linked Discourses (Saṃyutta Nikāya)
The Buddha explains how there is non-restraint and restraint with a simile of six animals with different domains and feeding grounds. He uses strong post or pillar as a designation for mindfulness directed to the body.
In Numerical Discourses (Aṅguttara Nikāya)
Short teachings contrasting the untamed and the tamed mind.