Upadana

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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
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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upādāna in the Buddhist dictionary