Q: Are all good feelings related to sensuality? Can't I enjoy things anymore? Why is sensuality a problem?

 Q: Are all good feelings related to sensuality? Can't I enjoy things anymore? Why is sensuality a problem?

The practice of virtue and sense restraint weans us off our reliance on sensual enjoyments, sensuality and addiction in sense objects. Since we're so involved in sensuality, we need ever increasing amounts of sensuality to receive the same level of enjoyment. This becomes a vicious circle because we crave sensual objects in greater amounts and greater intensity, and thus suffer when we don't have them, and fear their loss when we do have them (and never truly enjoy the present moment).

The Buddha advised his followers to initially practice sense restraint, so as not to trigger overt amounts of covetousness or aversion due to sense objects. This combines with the practice of virtue and keeping the precepts to avoid unwholesome mental states and craving.

Once this has been achieved, then sensuality no longer has the same enticing effect that it had before, and we're free to just enjoy pleasant feelings and pleasant sense objects without being addicted to grasping these objects (or pushing them away if they are unpleasant).