Friends:
Without Clinging one is 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
the realm of
death, any aware & 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 clinging to death's realm, he
stills all craving.
By stilling all craving, all clinging is relinquished. No wanting
means no clutch!
Sutta-Nipāta 1101-04 Edited
excerpt.
Comment:
While dwelling detached the later ordained
Bhadrāvudha became an arahat!
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The_4_kinds_of_Clinging.
Without
Clinging!
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