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**Onervemurce** · 06-16-2012, 05:40 PM

I like your explanation in both post, Esho.

"Quenching", has a sensation of choice which I feel fits well with my understanding of the Buddha's teaching and our need to guard the sense gates and make right intentions etc.

Quenching is also an experience we can all recognise, where we may crave for a certain food or activity which is easily quenched by indulging ourselves. Later we may note that some time has passed without feeling or craving for that same food or activity i.e. it was just a idea or feeling we had. For the normal worldling the craving for another object or the same object may arise spontaneously, however for the arahant is seems to be said that the craving can be quenched for good. However it would not surprise me if there is still some way to rekindle the craving and thirst for worldly objects, even for the arahant who has mastered craving.

Metta.

06-16-2012, 05:40 PM	#7
Onervemurce Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 326 Senior Member	I like your explanation in both post, Esho. "Quenching", has a sensation of choice which I feel fits well with my understanding of the Buddha's teaching and our need to guard the sense gates and make right intentions etc. Quenching is also an experience we can all recognise, where we may crave for a certain food or activity which is easily quenched by indulging ourselves. Later we may note that some time has passed without feeling or craving for that same food or activity i.e. it was just a idea or feeling we had. For the normal worldling the craving for another object or the same object may arise spontaneously, however for the arahant is seems to be said that the craving can be quenched for good. However it would not surprise me if there is still some way to rekindle the craving and thirst for worldly objects, even for the arahant who has mastered craving. Metta.
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