{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_bits_bits034_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_bits_bits034_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bud_bits_bits034_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/bits/bits034.htm","summary":"This is a passage from the *Visuddhimagga* (Path of Purification), a foundational 5th-century Therav\u0101da Buddhist treatise by Buddhaghosa \u2014 specifically section 34 on \"Attachment\" (up\u0101d\u0101na). The text systematically analyzes the four types of attachment recognized in Abhidhamma psychology: attachment to sensual pleasure, to heresy (wrong views), to fanatical conduct (believing ritual austerities produce purity), and to the assertion of a self/Ego. The central argument is that each attachment arises from a corresponding \"perverse\" misapprehension of reality \u2014 mistaking the impure for pure, misery for happiness, the non-self for a self, and the transient for permanent \u2014 and that contemplating the five aggregates (form, sensation, perception, predispositions, consciousness) correctly dissolves each one. A notably distinctive feature is the threefold sequential analysis: the order in which attachments *arise* in a given life (ego-assertion first, sensual pleasure last), the order in which they are *abandoned* on the path (ego-assertion and heresy first via the Path of Conversion; sensual pleasure only at full Arhatship), and the pedagogical order in which they are *taught* (sensual pleasure first, as most conspicuous). The vivid simile comparing desire to a robber groping in darkness and attachment to the robber seizing his loot illustrates the scholastic text's occasional rhetorical sharpness.","tags":["Henry Clarke Warren","Pali Canon Translations","Theravada Buddhism"],"text":null,"title":"Buddhism in Translations - \u00a7 34. Attachment.","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","translated_text":null,"word_count":1565}