FOUR KINDS OF ATTACHMENT

Venerable Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

 

FOUR KINDS OF ATTACHMENT 

The four snakes in this picture represent four kinds of attachment: 

1.kämupädäna (grasping arising from sense desires)

2.ditthupädäna (grasping at views philosophical and theological)

3. sīlabbatupädäna (grasping at belief in the efficacy of rites and vows)

4. attavādupädäna (grasping at belief in a soul theory). 

Any manner of attachment is, of course, the result of ignorance and like the entwinement of a snake. (It is noteworthy that these four graspings are shown by snakes looped and wound about each other indicating that all the graspings are interrelated. They illustrate very well the sense of being bound by or tied down to the ordinary round of life.)

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