The four kinds of clinging...
1. Clinging to sensual pleasures
2. Clinging to views
3. Clinging to rules (rituals) and observances
4. Clinging to a doctrine of self
These four kinds of clinging have craving as their source, craving as their origin, they are born and produced from craving.
Craving has what as its source...? Craving has feeling as its source...
Feeling has what as its source...? Feeling has contact as its source...
Contact has what as its source...? Contact has the sixfold base as its source...
The sixfold base has what as its source...? The sixfold base has mentality-materiality as its source...
Mentality-materiality has what as its source...? Mentality-materiality has consciousness as its source...
Consciousness has what as its source...? Consciousness has formations as its source...
Formations have what as their source...? Formations have ignorance as their source, ignorance as their origin; they are born and produced from ignorance.
"Bhikkhus, when ignorance is abandoned and true knowledge has arisen in a bhikkhu, then with the fading away of ignorance and the arising of true knowledge he no longer clings to sensual pleasures, no longer clings to views, no longer clings to rules and observances, no longer clings to a doctrine of self. When he does not cling, he is not agitated. When he is not agitated, he personally attains Nibbana. He understands: 'Birth is destroyed, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming to any state of being.'"
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