The Ending of Craving

Linked Discourses 52.7

1. In Private

The Ending of Craving

At Sāvatthī.

There Venerable Anuruddha addressed the mendicants:

“Reverends, mendicants!”

“Reverend,” they replied.

Anuruddha said this:

“Reverends, when these four kinds of mindfulness meditation are developed and cultivated they lead to the ending of craving.

What four?

It’s when a mendicant meditates by observing an aspect of the body …

feelings …

mind …

principles—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.

When these four kinds of mindfulness meditation are developed and cultivated they lead to the ending of craving.”