iti105:0.1So It Was Said 105
iti105:0.2The Book of the Fours
iti105:0.3The Chapter on the Brahmin’s Offering of the Teaching
iti105:0.4The Arising of Craving
iti105:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti105:2.1“Mendicants, there are four things that give rise to craving in a mendicant.
iti105:2.2What four?
iti105:2.3For the sake of robes,
iti105:2.4almsfood,
iti105:2.5lodgings,
iti105:2.6or rebirth in this or that state.
iti105:2.7These are the four things that give rise to craving in a mendicant.”
iti105:2.8The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti105:2.9On this it is said:
iti105:3.1“Craving is a person’s partner
iti105:3.2as they transmigrate on this long journey.
iti105:3.3They go from this state to another,
iti105:3.4but don’t escape transmigration.
iti105:4.1Knowing this danger,
iti105:4.2that craving is the cause of suffering—
iti105:4.3rid of craving, free of grasping,
iti105:4.4a mendicant would wander mindful.”
iti105:5.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.