{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_ud7.3/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_ud7.3","id":"suttacentral_ud7.3","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/ud7.3/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Now at that time most of the people in S\u0101vatth\u012b overly clung to sensual pleasures. Lustful, greedy, tied, infatuated, they lived completely addicted to sensual pleasures. Then several mendicants robed up in the morning and, taking their bowls and robes, entered S\u0101vatth\u012b for alms. Then, after the meal, when they returned from almsround, they went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and told him what was happening. Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment: \u201cClinging to sensual pleasures, <j>to the chains of the senses, blind to the faults of the fetters, clinging to the chain of the fetters, they\u2019ll never cross the flood so vast.\u201d","title":"Clinging (1st)","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":133}