Linked Discourses 23
1. About Māra
10. Desire and Greed (2nd)
At Sāvatthī. When Venerable Rādha was seated to one side, the Buddha said to him: “Rādha, you should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for form; and any attraction, grasping, mental resolve, insistence, and underlying tendencies. Thus that form will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, exterminated, and unable to arise in the future. You should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for feeling … perception … choices … consciousness; and any attraction, grasping, mental resolve, insistence, and underlying tendencies. Thus that consciousness will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, exterminated, and unable to arise in the future.”