Craving
The thirst that turns experience into suffering: craving for sensual pleasures, for existence, for non-existence. The second noble truth names taṇhā as the origin of dukkha.
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- Interest, choice and not grasping — cetanā and chanda in the web of conditions Theravāda Abhidhamma · study record · cetanā, chanda & gotrabhū
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Passages where taṇhā occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.
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Tipiṭaka · Linked Discourses 12.2 Primary passage
das nennt man Kontakt. Und was sind die sechs Sinnesfelder? Die Sinnesfelder von Auge, Ohr, Nase, Zunge, Körper und Geist; das nennt man die sechs Sinnesfelder. Und was sind Name und Form? Gefühl, Wahrnehmung, Absicht, Kontakt und Gebrauch des Geistes; das nennt man Name. Die vier Grundzustände und die Form, die von den vier Grundzuständen abgeleitet ist; das nennt man Form. So ist Name, und so ist Form; das nennt man Name und Form. Und was ist Bewusstsein? Es gibt sechs Klassen von Bewusstsein: Augenbewusstsein, Ohrbewusstsein, Nasenbewusstsein, Zungenbewusstsein, Körperbewusstsein und Geistbewusstsein; das nennt man Bewusstsein. Und was sind Willensbildungsprozesse? Es gibt diese drei …
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And what is craving? There are these six classes of craving. Craving for sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas. This is called craving. And what is feeling? There are these six classes of feeling. Feeling born of contact through the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. This is called feeling. And what is contact? There are these six classes of contact. Contact through the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. This is called contact. And what are the six sense fields? The sense fields of the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. These are called the six sense fields. And what are name and form? Feeling, perception, intention, contact, and application of mind. This is …
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Pāli commentaries · sagāthāvagga-aṭṭhakathā · Pāli
kaṅkhā ti taṇhā| abhinandanā ti abhinandanavasena taṇhāva vuttā| anekadhātūsū ti anekasabhāvesu ārammaṇesu| puthū ti nānappakārā taṇhā sesakilesā vā| sadāsitā ti niccakālaṃ avassitā| aññāṇamūlappabhavā ti avijjāmūlā hutvā jātā| pajappitā ti taṇhāva ‘‘idampi mayhaṃ, idampi mayha’’nti pajappāpanavasena pajappitā nāmāti vuttā| sabbā mayā byantikatā ti sabbā taṇhā mayā aggamaggena vigatantā nirantā katā| samūlikā ti saddhiṃ aññāṇamūlena|
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Āyurveda · Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasūtra · Sanskrit
saṃśoṣya tṛṣṇā jāyante tāsāṃ sāmānya-lakṣaṇam | mukha-śoṣo jalā-tṛptir anna-dveṣaḥ svara-kṣayaḥ || 48 ||
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Dzogchen · Prayer of Kuntuzangpo (Kunzang Mönlam) · English
སངས་རྒྱས་ང་ཡི་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱིས༔ sangye nga yi mönlam gyi Now through this, my aspiration as a buddha, འདོད་ཆགས་ཞེན་པའི་སེམས་ཅན་རྣམས༔ döchak zhenpé semchen nam May beings beset by craving and attachment འདོད་པའི་གདུང་བ་ཕྱིར་མ་སྤངས༔ döpé dungwa chir mapang Neither cast aside the torment of desire འདོད་ཆགས་ཞེན་པ་ཚུར་མ་བླང་༔ döchak zhenpa tsur malang Nor pursue the craving of attachment.
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Tipiṭaka · an7.96-614 · English
suttā honti visuṁ aṭṭha. Saññā sañcetanā taṇhā, vitakkesu vicāre ca; Gocarassa visuṁ aṭṭha, pañcakkhandhe ca pacceke. Soḷasasvettha mūlesu, aniccaṁ dukkhamanattā; Khayā vayā virāgā ca, nirodhā paṭinissaggā. Kamaṁ aṭṭhānupassanā, yojetvāna visuṁ visuṁ; Sampiṇḍitesu sabbesu, honti pañca satāni ca; Aṭṭhavīsati suttāni, āhuneyye ca vaggike”. Āhuneyyavaggo dasamo. Aṅguttara Nikāya 7 Numbered Discourses 7 Nummerierte Lehrreden 7.615 11. Rāgapeyyāla 11. Abbreviated Texts Beginning With Greed
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