2.
The Discourse on Clinging
52.
He was dwelling at Sāvatthī, etc.
"Monks, for one dwelling observing gratification in phenomena subject to clinging, craving increases.
With craving as condition, clinging;
with clinging as condition, existence;
with existence as condition, birth;
with birth as condition, ageing and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and anguish come to be.
Thus is the origin of this whole mass of suffering."
"Just as, monks, a great mass of fire of ten or twenty or thirty or forty cartloads of wood might burn. There a man from time to time might throw in dry grass, might throw in dry cow-dung, might throw in dry wood. Thus indeed, monks, that great mass of fire, with that nutriment, with that fuel, would burn for a long time, for a long duration. So too, monks, for one dwelling observing gratification in phenomena subject to clinging, craving increases. With craving as condition, clinging, etc. Thus is the origin of this whole mass of suffering.
"Monks, for one dwelling observing danger in phenomena subject to clinging, craving ceases. From the cessation of craving comes the cessation of clinging; from the cessation of clinging comes the cessation of existence; from the cessation of existence comes the cessation of birth; from the cessation of birth, ageing and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and anguish cease. Thus is the cessation of this whole mass of suffering.
"Just as, monks, a great mass of fire of ten or twenty or thirty or forty cartloads of wood might burn; there a man would not from time to time throw in dry grass, would not throw in dry cow-dung, would not throw in dry wood. Thus indeed, monks, that great mass of fire, through the exhaustion of the former fuel and through the non-supply of other fuel, being without nutriment, would be extinguished. So too, monks, for one dwelling observing danger in phenomena subject to clinging, craving ceases; from the cessation of craving comes the cessation of clinging, etc. thus is the cessation of this whole mass of suffering." The second.