{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn23.3/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn23.3","id":"suttacentral_sn23.3","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn23.3/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Seated to one side, Venerable R\u0101dha said to the Buddha: \u201cSir, they speak of this thing called \u2018the cessation of the leash to existence\u2019. What is the leash to existence? And what is the cessation of the leash to existence?\u201d \u201cR\u0101dha, any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for form; and any attraction, grasping, mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies\u2014 this is called the leash to existence. Their cessation is the cessation of the leash to existence. Any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for feeling \u2026 perception \u2026 choices \u2026 consciousness; and any attraction, grasping, mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies\u2014 this is called the leash to existence. Their cessation is the cessation of the leash to existence.\u201d","title":"The Leash to Existence","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":119}