“By what is the world held in bondage?
What is its means of travelling about?
What is it that one must forsake
To cut off all bondage?”“The world is held in bondage by delight;
Thought is its means of travelling about.
Craving is what one must forsake
To cut off all bondage.”
sn.1.65 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)
Bondage
- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi
- Editor: Blake Walsh
Bonds
“What binds the world?How does it travel about?
With the giving up of what
are all bonds severed?”
“Delight binds the world.
It travels about by means of thought.
With the giving up of craving
all bonds are severed.”