Upadana
Upādāna ( Pali / Sanskrit “appropriation”, “mention”; Sanskrit उपादान, upādāna ) is a Buddhist term for the process of clinging to the transitory. It is about the “why” of desire ( tanhā ), the pronounced awareness of “I and mine”, all thoughts, ideas, concepts and conceptions. Upādāna is part of the twelve-link chain of Dependent Origination . In German, the terms attachment or attachment have become common as a translation .
According to Buddhist tradition, there are four different basic forms of attachment:
# | Surname | Pali | Explanation |
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1. | Sensual attachment | kāmupādāna | This means clinging to sensory perception, e.g. B. the feeling of pleasure. |
2. | Clinging to views and opinions | ditthupādāna | What is meant is clinging to fixed opinions, from which a false worldview then arises. |
3. | Clinging to rites and rules | silabbatupādāna | This means clinging to fixed habits as well as the belief that simply practicing certain rituals can lead to spiritual advancement or even enlightenment. |
4th | Clinging to belief in a solid personality | attavādupādāna | This describes the clinging to the five groups of factors of existence ( skandhas ) and the assumption that there is a fixed, unchangeable essence, an ego . |
Attaching beings cling to objects, views and their own opinions and thereby bind themselves from a Buddhist point of view to the painful cycle of becoming and passing away ( samsara ). Attachment arises from the three poisons of the mind : greed, hatred and delusion. Since all appearances are ephemeral and unsatisfactory (cf. Three Characteristics of Existence ), additional suffering arises from the inability to let go . Because the objects of clinging will pass away, are unsatisfactory, and add to the actual pain the pain of disappointment.
See also
- Dependent Origination - Upādāna is in ninth place