Overview
Clinging (Upādāna) is the intensified form of craving that solidifies the kammic process leading to rebirth. The suttas list four types of clinging. This Dyad distills those four down to their absolute irreducible psychological roots.
The List
- Upādānā dhammā - States that are clingings: The four types of clinging (sensuality, views, rules/vows, doctrine of self) are ultimately just two mental factors. Clinging to sensuality is the mental factor of Greed (lobha). The other three are all manifestations of the mental factor of Wrong View (diṭṭhi).
- No upādānā dhammā - States that are not clingings: All other phenomena in existence.
Textual References
- Abhidhamma: Dhammasaṅgaṇī (Duka) – Demonstrates that all dogmatism and fanaticism are fundamentally just variations of wrong view.