How to Prolong Suffering by Acquisition of Fuel?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Friends, whoever recluse or priest
now, in the past, or in the
future regards
whatever pleasant and attractive, there is in this
world as permanent, as
lasting, as happiness, as self, as healthy,
as secure, they all thereby only
stimulate craving! By stimulating craving
they long, thirsts and hankers,
thereby inducing production of
sense desires, production of defilements,
production of
intentions, hopes, wishes and planning, and production of
these
5
clusters of clinging! By nurturing uptake of such accumulation of
fuel for becoming, fuel for existence, they indeed provoke continuation!
Thus provoking prolongation, they are neither freed from birth, nor from
decay & ageing, nor are they freed from death! They are therefore not
released from sorrow, from depression, from despair, from
misery, from
pain, from frustration, from discontent, nor from hopelessness. I tell you:
They are not freed from neither the present, nor from any future suffering!
But friends, whoever recluse or priest now, in the past, or in the
future regards
whatever pleasant and attractive, there is here in this
world as impermanent,
as transient, as suffering, as no-self, as a
disease, as danger, as fearful,
as an empty terror, they all thereby reduce craving. After having gradually
eliminated
all craving, I tell you: They are thereby freed from all Suffering...
More on these 5 Clusters of Clinging
(Khandha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Any_Kind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Not_Yours.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Leash.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/One_Idea.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Like_Foam.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fingernail_of_Soil.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Acquisition_of_Fuel.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Burning_Five.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stilling_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/khandha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya II 109-112
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
