Craving, Feeling, Perception, and Impermanence: The Dhamma Path to Liberation from Suffering

[Hema jayantha colombage]

The Buddha’s Profound Clarification

“Vedanāpaccayā taṇhā ti iti kho panetaṃ vuṭṭhaṃ, tadānaṃda imināpetañ pariyāyena veditabbaṃ, yathā vedanāpaccayā taṇhā. Vedanā ca hi, ānanda, nābhavissa sabbena sabbaṃ sabbathā sabbaṃ, kassa’ci kimhici, seyya pathi daṃ – cakkhusampassajā vedanā, sotasampassajā vedanā, ghānassampassajā vedanā, jivhāsampassajā vedanā, kāyāsampassajā vedanā, manosampassajā vedanā, sabbaso vedanāya asati vedanānīrodhā api nu kho taṇhā paññāyetha ti?”

The Buddha explained to Ānanda: “Ānanda, craving arises dependent on feeling. Understand this: at times, feeling arises through the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind. Is there craving without such feeling?”

This is profoundly important. Feelings arise dependent on sense organs—eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind. This is the source of craving.

Contemplating the impermanence of all phenomena, and understanding the arising and passing of the five aggregates, allows liberation from craving. Proper mindfulness and insight are necessary. Craving strengthens attachment and perpetuates suffering.

Following the Eightfold Dhamma, a being can endure pain without attachment, enjoy pleasure without craving, and remain free from the illusion of “mine” or “I,” achieving freedom from the cycle of rebirth.

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