It’s interesting that the Buddha doesn’t recommend that the person abandon thoughts of sensuality right away.

"When the Buddha is giving Mahanama some instructions on how to counsel somebody who is dying, after making sure that the person is not worried about his family, not worried about his work — or her family or her work — the next question is: Are you worried about leaving human sensuality?

It’s interesting that the Buddha doesn’t recommend that the person abandon thoughts of sensuality right away. He first has you tell the person that there is better sensuality up in the heavens. Set your mind there. Then he’ll recommend you go up the ladder of the heavens, from one level to the next to the next, because the devas in some of those lower heavens are like the teenagers of the heavenly worlds. They’re obsessed with sex and fast vehicles. When you get to the higher levels of the sensual heavens, the devas seem a little more clear-headed. As you get more clear-headed, then you can start talking about doing away with the attachment to self-identity.

So you can try the same technique with yourself as you meditate here. Prepare yourself. If you find yourself thinking about human sensuality, tell yourself, “I hear it’s better up in the heavens.” Then work your way up, ultimately realizing that no matter how good it gets up there, you’ll have to come crashing down again. This is the contemplation of the graduated discourse or the step-by-step discourse — the anupubbi-katha. You do good, you’re generous and virtuous, you get rewarded, but then the rewards fall through and you have to start doing good again. The only escape from this pattern is to get out of the cycle entirely. To think in those terms is a perfectly legitimate way to think as you’re dying because, as the Buddha says, there have been cases where people gain awakening at the moment of death."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Unhindered at Death"

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