Linked Discourses 45.173

1. Floods

Grasping

“Mendicants, there are these four kinds of grasping.

What four?

Grasping at sensual pleasures, views, precepts and observances, and theories of a self.

These are the four kinds of grasping.

The noble eightfold path should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these four kinds of grasping.”