Friends:
What are the Four Kinds of Clinging (Upadana) ?
The four kinds of Clinging are:
1: Clinging to sense pleasures,
2: Clinging to views,
3: Clinging to mere rules and ritual,
4: Clinging to the concept of self.
1: What is clinging to sense pleasures?
Whatever, regarding perceptible objects, there is of lust for pleasures,
desire for sensing, greed for sense pleasures, delight in sense pleasures,
craving for sense pleasures, burning fever for sense pleasures,
infatuation with sense pleasures, committal to sense pleasures,
adherence to sense pleasures, attachment to sense pleasures,
addiction to sense pleasures, obsession to sense pleasures;
all this is called the clinging to sense pleasures...
2: What is clinging to views?
The view that: 'Alms, giving & offerings are useless'; and the view that:
'There is neither fruit nor result of neither good nor bad behaviour...!'
All such wrong views & mad opinions are called the clinging to views...
3: What is clinging to mere rules and ritual?
Attaching & clutching to the view that through mere rules and ritual,
and weird superstitious traditions, one may reach complete mental
purification... All this is called the clinging to mere rules and ritual...
4: What is clinging to the 'personality' concept of a self?
The 20 kinds of ego-views with regard to the 5 clusters of clinging:
'My self is form, or have a form, or is inside a form, or form is inside my
self'
'My self is feeling, ... or perception, ... or construction, ... or
consciousness'
'have consciousness, is inside consciousness, or consciousness is inside a
self'.
All such stable core ego-assuming is called the clinging to the concept of
self...
Clinging is an intensified result of craving, which is caused by craving.
Craving is wanting and urging for an object not yet reached, but hunted.
Clinging is the firm grasping and clutching to an object already in hand.
Clinging promote possessiveness, hostile defensiveness and evil behaviour
in the attempt to guard the object! Pain emerges, when whatever object
inevitably is lost due to the impermanence of the always ongoing change.
Future becoming with side-effects of decay is caused by prior clinging...
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