What causes this
possessive clinging to what is Painful?
At Savatthi, while seated, Venerable Radha asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir, one says: "A Being!" In what way, Sir, is one a being?
One is stuck, Radha, tightly stuck, in desire, lust, delight, & craving
for form; therefore is one called a being! One is trapped, strongly
trapped, in yearning, greed, fascination, & craving for feeling, for
perception, for mental constructions & for consciousness, in so far
as this violent force of clinging is active, one is called a being...!!!
Imagine, Radha, some small boys & girls are playing with sand castles.
So long as they are not devoid of lust, desire, affection, attraction,
delight, thirst, greed, & craving for those sand castles, then they will
like them, play with them, treasure them, and treat them possessively...
But as soon as the small boys & girls lose their lust, desire, affection,
attraction, delight, thirst, greed, & craving for those sand castles, then
they scatter them with their hands & feet, bulldoze them, shatter them,
and eradicate them! So too should you, Radha, scatter form, destroy it,
shatter it, eradicate it by practicing for the stilling of craving for form.
You should scatter feeling, scatter perception, scatter constructions, &
scatter consciousness, demolish it, shatter it, put it out of action, by the
practicing of the destruction of craving. For the destruction of craving,
Radha, is peace, is freedom, is bliss, is Nibbana...
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya
23:2 III 190
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