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Saṃyutta Nikāya
Khandhasaṃyuttaṃ
Upādāniyasuttaṃ
SN22.121

At Sāvatthi.

'I shall point out, almsmen, and the graspable principles and the grasping.
Therefor listen.

And which, almsmen, graspable principles, which grasping?

Form, almsmen, a graspable principle; what there the desire and passion is, therefor there the grasping. Feeling, almsmen, a graspable principle; what there the desire and passion is, therefor there the grasping. Perception, almsmen, a graspable principle; what there the desire and passion is, therefor there the grasping. Inclinations, almsmen, a graspable principle; what there the desire and passion is, therefor there the grasping. Cognition, almsmen, a graspable principle; what there the desire and passion is, therefor there the grasping.

These are called, almsmen, graspable principles, this the grasping.'

N o t e s

• Pointed out are graspable principles and the grasping, which is present with the desire and passion is present. So it is not: grasping forms, etc. (nor is there grasping without forms, etc.) but 'with desire and passion for forms, grasping'; With support of longing, grasping. And it is said like this 'what there the desire and passion is, therefor there the grasping', so if there is no desire and passion, then there is no grasping; With the cessation of longing, cessation of grasping. Thus dependent-co-arising, the right way.