The Leash to Existence

Bhavanettisutta

The Leash to Existence

Bhavanettisutta

EN
At Sāvatthī. Seated to one side, Venerable Rādha said to the Buddha: “Sir, they speak of this thing called ‘the cessation of the leash to existence’. What is the leash to existence? And what is the cessation of the leash to existence?”
PL
Sāvatthinidānaṁ. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho āyasmā rādho bhagavantaṁ etadavoca: “‘bhavanettinirodho, bhavanettinirodho’ti, bhante, vuccati. Katamā nu kho, bhante, bhavanetti, katamo bhavanettinirodho”ti?
EN
“Rādha, any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for form; and any attraction, grasping, mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies— this is called the leash to existence. Their cessation is the cessation of the leash to existence. Any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for feeling …
PL
“Rūpe kho, rādha, yo chando yo rāgo yā nandī yā taṇhā ye upayupādānā cetaso adhiṭṭhānābhinivesānusayā— ayaṁ vuccati bhavanetti. Tesaṁ nirodho bhavanettinirodho. Vedanāya …
EN
perception … choices … consciousness; and any attraction, grasping, mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies— this is called the leash to existence.
PL
saññāya … saṅkhāresu … viññāṇe yo chando …pe… adhiṭṭhānābhinivesānusayā— ayaṁ vuccati bhavanetti.
EN
Their cessation is the cessation of the leash to existence.”
PL
Tesaṁ nirodho bhavanettinirodho”ti. Tatiyaṁ.

Pāli root text and English translation by Bhikkhu Sujato from SuttaCentral (https://suttacentral.net), CC0.

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