What is the difference between craving and clinging?
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Craving is when the baby reaches with desire for the pacifier and clinging is when the baby has the pacifier and won't let it go.
To distinguish craving from clinging, Buddhaghosa uses the following metaphor in this source:
"Craving is the aspiring to an object that one has not yet reached, like a thief's stretching out his hand in the dark; clinging is the grasping of an object that one has reached, like the thief's grasping his objective.... They are the roots of the suffering due to seeking and guarding."
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Repeated craving becomes clinging. Another name for clinging is attachment.
Craving:
- Sensual craving
- Craving to be
- Craving not to be
Attachment:
Once attachment forms it's painful to sever.
- We protect our object of attachment.
- We like to be with our object of attachment.
- We pine when we are apart from our object of attachment.
There are 4 types of attachments:
- Sensual attachment
- Attachment to views
- Attachment to our idea of self
- Attachment to rites & rituals
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