How do you contemplate delight you get due to action that leads to detachment?
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how do you contemplate this delight?
From MN1, we know that...
MN1/en/bodhi ...delight is the root of suffering...
Therefore, rather than contemplating and nurturing delight, it may prove more fruitful to contemplate emptiness:
MN8:3.6: A mendicant gives up and lets go of these views by truly seeing with right wisdom where they arise, where they settle in, and where they operate as: ‘This is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self.’
MN8 is a wonderful sutta that explores the relationship between practice and action that you have brought up in your question. Notice that what is contemplated is NOT delight:
MN8:12.30: ‘Others will be stingy, but here we will be without stinginess.’
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There are three major aspects of Noble Eightfold Path which lead to Nibbana. That is Sila, Samadhi, and Panna. What you describe above just the aspect of Sila and it is just a means to an end but not the end. It appears your understanding of Buddhism is still immature. You have to learn a bit more to get what Buddha exactly meany in Noble Eightfold Path. The contemplation you made comes at the Panna level.
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Its good you have experiential understanding of delight as a phenomenon ,but let me probe this inquiry ,who is asking this question of how to contemplate delight ?, who is getting delighted ?. Does that person intrinsically exist or just a phenomenon ?.
There is really nobody that has to do something about anything .There was delight and then there was the person who thought about what to do about delight ,both are phenomenal they can stay come or go ,but intrinsically there is nobody to initiate contemplation on them, because that itself would also be a phenomena ,recognized from the emptiness which isn't someone .
Just that realization is enough to end any meditation session.
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