The 4 kinds of Clinging ... !!!

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There are these four kinds of Clinging (Upadana):

The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, there are these four kinds of Clinging. What four?

The Clinging to Sense-Pleasures...The Clinging to Various Views...The Clinging to Rituals & Superstition…The Clinging to Ego-Concept…

These are the four kinds of Clinging!This Noble 8-fold Way is to be developed for the direct experience of the four kinds of Clinging, 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 Clinging!

Comment:The first kind of Clinging to sights, sounds, smells, flavours, touches, & thoughts is fairly obvious…Clinging is to Views is like thinking: Doing good deeds are useless… Doing evil have no consequences…Clinging to rituals & superstition is like thinking that fire, bathing, & various rituals can purify mind…Clinging to Ego-concept, personality-belief, & self is the assuming an unchanging internal entity ‘I-Me’…The proximate cause of all Clinging is Craving, which have to be left! This is the second Noble Truth!Clinging means: adherence, attachment, clasping, cleaving, clutching, grasping, grip, & stubbornly stick to.The word ‘upadana’ literally means ‘uptake’ indicating that as soon as one takes up!, then Clinging occurs!Sariputta once said:When, friends, a Noble Disciple understands Clinging, the cause of Clinging, the ceasing of Clinging, and the way leading to the ceasing of Clinging, in that way he is one of right view, whose view is straight, who has perfect confidence in the Dhamma, and has arrived at this true Dhamma. And what is Clinging, what is the cause of Clinging, what is the ceasing of Clinging, what is the way to the cease Clinging? There are these four kinds of Clinging: Clinging to sense-pleasures, Clinging to views, Clinging to rituals & superstition, & Clinging to the concept of self. With the arising of craving, Clinging also arises. With the ceasing of craving, Clinging ceases too. The way leading to the ceasing of Clinging is just this Noble 8-fold Way; that is, right view, right motivation, right speech … , … , … , & right concentration…http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/majjhima/mn-009-nb0.html

 

Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V:59] section 45: The Way. 173: The 4 Clingings ... http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html.

 

 

 

 

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