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Craving
by Mallika Sirisuriya, The Buddhist Channel, June 4, 2010
The six doors of perception The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind Make contact with the external world
And experience sensations Some pleasant some unpleasant But on the whole seem pleasing

And thus is born craving We do not realise that craving Leads to suffering
We cling on to these pleasant sensations And imagine that it is happiness And we go on grasping
Little realising that this happiness Will elude us And what awaits us is
Birth and old age and death and birth again Endlessly in Samsara
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