Guest guest Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 Friends: There are these three kinds of Craving (Tanhaa): The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, there are these three kinds of craving. What three? The Craving for Sensing...The Craving for Becoming...The Craving for Non-Becoming… These are the three kinds of Craving!This Noble 8-fold Way is to be developed for the direct experience of these three kinds of Craving, for the full understanding of them, for their complete elimination, and for their final overcoming, abandoning and leaving all behind…The Noble 8-fold Way is developed for the ceasing of all Craving! Comment:The first kind of Craving for sights, sounds, smells, flavours, touches, & thoughts is fairly obvious…The second Craving is for becoming things such as: Rich, famous, praised, satisfied, beautiful…etc…The third kind of Craving is for not becoming things such as: Sick, criticized, poor, ugly, dead…etc…The proximate cause of all Suffering is Craving, which have to be left! This is the 2nd Noble Truth!Craving means: All kinds of lust, desire, hunger, thirst, longing, urging, yearning, hankering, & hoping.. Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V:58] section 45: The Way. 175: The 3 Cravings ... http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html. PS: Please include the word Samahita in any comment, since then will my automatic mail filters pick it up and I will see it & respond!! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. Friendship is the Greatest ... Let there be Calm & Free Bliss !!! http://What-Buddha-Said.net Buddha-Direct What_Buddha_Said Dhamma-Questions sent to my email are quite Welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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