sn22.8:1.1 At Sāvatthī.
sn22.8:1.2 “Mendicants, I will teach you how grasping leads to anxiety, and how not grasping leads to freedom from anxiety.
sn22.8:1.3 Listen and apply your mind well, I will speak.
sn22.8:1.4 And how does grasping lead to anxiety?
sn22.8:1.5 It’s when an unlearned ordinary person regards form like this: ‘This is mine, I am this, this is my self.’
sn22.8:1.6 But that form of theirs decays and perishes,
sn22.8:1.7 which gives rise to sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress.
sn22.8:1.8 They regard feeling …
sn22.8:1.9 perception …
sn22.8:1.10 choices …
sn22.8:1.11 consciousness like this: ‘This is mine, I am this, this is my self.’
sn22.8:1.12 But that consciousness of theirs decays and perishes,
sn22.8:1.13 which gives rise to sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress.
sn22.8:1.14 That’s how grasping leads to anxiety.