This World is Messed Up
in Craving!
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 is
Mental Slavery!
Craving
is a
Prison of Dominating Urge...
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya I 40
http://store.pariyatti.org/Connected-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_1379.html
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/sn/index.html
On Craving as the Cause
of all Suffering see:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Craving.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm
