This World is Messed Up!
The Buddha once told a deity:
This world is suffering from Death,
Troubled by ageing, decay
and sickness,
Wounded by the Dart of constant
Craving!
Always is it burning with Desire
and Lust...
This world is addicted to Delight and Pleasure,
Since dragged around by this urge
and longing,
Craving
must be cut, to break free from bondage
and reach the only absolute freedom: Nibbāna...
Comments:
How can there be any freedom if there still is
craving, longing and clinging to something...
Craving = Mental Slavery! =
Prison of urge...
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya I 40
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
On Craving as the Cause
of Suffering see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Craving.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm
Freedom = Cut Craving!
