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The Arising of Craving

AN 4.9 · Taṇhuppādasutta

An imagined Tibetan landscape inspired by Mount Kailash.

“Mendicants, there are four things that give rise to craving in a mendicant. What four? For the sake of robes, almsfood, lodgings, or rebirth in this or that state.

These are the four things that give rise to craving in a mendicant.

Craving is a person’s partner as they transmigrate on this long journey. They go from this state to another, but don’t escape transmigration.

Knowing this drawback—that craving is the cause of suffering—rid of craving, free of grasping, a mendicant would wander mindful.”

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