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Friends:
Like
a simple Dog chained to a strong Steel Post!
Imagine,
friends, a dog tied with a chain bound to a strong post:
It would
remain running & circling around that very same post...
So too, the
unlearned ordinary person, who regards form as self,
who regards feeling as
self, who regards perception as self, who
regards constructions as self,
who regards consciousness as self...
He keeps whirling & spinning
around those 5 clusters of clinging!!!
Furthermore: If that dog walks, or
stands, or sits down, or lies
down, it does all that always quite close to
that very same post...
So too, friends, an untrained ordinary person, who
regards form
thus: 'This is mine, this I am, this is my self'. Who regards
feeling,
perception, constructions, & consciousness thus: 'This is
mine, this
I am, this is my self.' If he walks, he walks quite close to
those 5
clusters of clinging! If he stands, or if he sits down, or lies
down,
he always does that, as if locked to those five clusters of
clinging!!!
As bound, he keeps running & circling around form, around
feeling,
around perception, around constructions, & around
consciousness...
Since he keeps on rotating & spiralling around them,
he is neither
freed from form, nor from feeling, nor from perception, nor
from
constructions, nor is he freed from consciousness. Thus, I tell
you,
is he neither freed from birth, aging, decay nor death, neither is he
freed from sorrow, pain, lamentation, discontent, desperate despair,
neither is he freed from this entire mass of Suffering ...
!!!
Commentary:
The foolish ordinary person is like the dog,
his view is like the chain!,
his artificial 'I'-dentity (egoism) is
like the post. Like the dog's running
around the post, is the ordinary
person's running around his assumed
personal identity, bound to it by
craving, clinging & constructed views!
Source: The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikaya XXII (99-100); [III 149-152]
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On Clusters!
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