Friends:
Cutting Craving
and Clinging Ends all Pain!
At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said this:
Bhikkhus: Whatever desire & lust there is for form, feeling, perception,
mental construction and consciousness, whatever greed, urge & craving,
whatever engagement, entanglement & clinging, whatever habitual addiction,
obsession, and underlying tendency there is for this form, feeling, perception,
mental construction and consciousness, overcome, eliminate & leave it behind!!!
Thus all that form, feeling, perception, mental construction and consciousness
will be overcome & conquered, cut off at the very root, made like a palm stump,
completely destroyed, so that it is unable to rearise again...
This - only this - is the End of Suffering...!!!
More on this thorny Craving causing
all pain:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cut_Craving.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Craving_is_Cause.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Origin_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Craving_is_Catastrophic.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
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya 22:112 III 162
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Updated:
22 Nov 2009
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cut_Craving.htm