{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.199/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.199","id":"suttacentral_an4.199","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.199/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"The Buddha said this: \u201cMendicants, I will teach you about craving\u2014the weaver, the migrant, the creeping, the clinging. This world is choked by it, enveloped by it. It makes the world tangled like yarn, knotted like a ball of thread, and matted like rushes and reeds, not escaping the places of loss, the bad places, the underworld, transmigration. Listen and apply your mind well, I will speak.\u201d \u201cYes, sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cAnd what is that craving \u2026? There are eighteen currents of craving that derive from the interior, and eighteen that derive from the exterior. What are the eighteen currents of craving that derive from the interior? When there is the concept \u2018I am\u2019, there are the concepts \u2018I am such\u2019, \u2018I am thus\u2019, \u2018I am otherwise\u2019; \u2018I am fleeting\u2019, \u2018I am lasting\u2019; \u2018mine\u2019, \u2018such is mine\u2019, \u2018thus is mine\u2019, \u2018otherwise is mine\u2019; \u2018also mine\u2019, \u2018such is also mine\u2019, \u2018thus is also mine\u2019, \u2018otherwise is also mine\u2019; \u2018I will be\u2019, \u2018I will be such\u2019, \u2018I will be thus\u2019, \u2018I will be otherwise\u2019. These are the eighteen currents of craving that derive from the interior. What are the eighteen currents of craving that derive from the exterior? When there is the concept \u2018I am because of this\u2019, there are the concepts \u2018I am such because of this\u2019, \u2018I am thus because of this\u2019, \u2018I am otherwise because of this\u2019; \u2018I am fleeting because of this\u2019, \u2018I am lasting because of this\u2019; \u2018mine because of this\u2019, \u2018such is mine because of this\u2019, \u2018thus is mine because of this\u2019, \u2018otherwise is mine because of this\u2019; \u2018also mine because of this\u2019, \u2018such is also mine because of this\u2019, \u2018thus is also mine because of this\u2019, \u2018otherwise is also mine because of this\u2019; \u2018I will be because of this\u2019, \u2018I will be such because of this\u2019, \u2018I will be thus because of this\u2019, \u2018I will be otherwise because of this\u2019. These are the eighteen currents of craving that derive from the exterior. So there are eighteen currents of craving that derive from the interior, and eighteen that derive from the exterior. These are called the thirty-six currents of craving. Each of these pertain to the past, future, and present, making one hundred and eight currents of craving. This is that craving\u2014the weaver, the migrant, the creeping, the clinging. This world is choked by it, enveloped by it. It makes the world tangled like yarn, knotted like a ball of thread, and matted like rushes and reeds, not escaping the places of loss, the bad places, the underworld, transmigration.\u201d","title":"Craving, the Weaver","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":427}