“By what is the world bound?
By the removal of what is it freed?
What is it that one must forsake
To cut off all bondage?”“By desire is the world bound;
By the removal of desire it is freed.
Desire is what one must forsake
To cut off all bondage.”
sn.1.69 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)
Desire
- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi
- Editor: Blake Walsh