graspings and attachments...

To Buddha, every definitive thing is illusion;

He knows that whatever the mind grasps and throws away is insubstantial;

thus He transcends the pitfalls of images and discriminative thought.


For people, life is a succession of graspings and attachments, and then, because of this, they must assume the illusions of pain and suffering.


To adhere to a thing because of its form is the source of delusion.

If the form is not grasped and adhered to, this false imagination and absurd delusion will not occur.

Enlightenment is seeing this truth and being free from such a foolish delusion.



The above Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai quotes are from the book
'Powerful Buddhist Quotes'