Without Clinging one
is fully Liberated!
The disciple
Bhadrāvudha
once asked the Blessed
Buddha:
How can one release all clinging?
By dispelling all craving, thereby all clinging is also released, because
craving
causes clinging! Thus do absence of craving result in absence of clinging
said
the Blessed One.
Bhadrāvudha, where-ever above, below, across, and also in
between: Whatever beings grasp and cling to in the world, by that very
thing
is they followed to death... Attaching to anything, means attaching to
death!
Therefore, knowing this, seeing people clinging - even in panic - to this realm
of
death, any aware and alert Bhikkhu would neither grasp, nor cling to
anything
in the entire world. Seeing all those people, who habitually are very
attached
to many worldly things, and thus clutching to death's realm, he stills all
craving.
By stilling all craving, all clinging is relinquished. No
wanting means no Suffering!
Sutta-Nipāta 1101-04
Edited excerpt.
Comment:
While dwelling detached the later ordained
Bhadrāvudha became an
Arahant!
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