Friends:

Nothing is ever Worth Clinging to!

A certain Bhikkhu once asked the Blessed Buddha:

Venerable Sir, how should one know and see, in order to eliminate all
ignorance and to facilitate the emergence of real and true knowledge?

Bhikkhu, when one has heard that: Nothing is worth clinging to,
then one directly knows everything! Having directly known everything,
one fully understands everything! Having fully understood everything,
one sees & regards all aspects, signs & phenomena quite differently:

As something remote, as something alien, as something other, & neither
as something that is 'me' nor 'mine', nor as an 'I', a 'self, or an 'Ego'!

One regards the eye, forms, visual consciousness, eye-contact, feelings
& experiences caused seeing quite differently... As something remote...

One regards the ear, sounds, auditory consciousness, ear-contact, and
feelings & experiences by hearing differently... As something foreign...

One regards the nose, all smells, olfactory consciousness, nose-contact,
& smelled feelings & experiences differently. As something quite alien!

One regards the tongue, taste, gustatory consciousness, tongue-contact,
tasted feelings & experiences differently... As something superficial...

One regards the body, touch, tactile consciousness, body-contacts and
touched feelings & experiences very differently... As something external!

One regards the mind, thought, mental consciousness, mental-contacts, &
thought feelings & experiences differently... As something all detached!!!

When, Bhikkhu, whoever knows & sees all signs thus, ignorance is left
behind by him and real and true knowledge has emerged...

Detached Alien Remoteness: Nothing is worth clinging to!

More on Clinging:

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Without_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Without_Possessions.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stilling_of_Clinging.htm

Source:

The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. Book IV [50]
Section 35: On The 6 Senses. The Elimination of Ignorance: 80.

http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Detached Alien Remoteness: Nothing is worth clinging to!

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Bhikkhu Samāhita _/\_ 
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