Reading guide
The same instruction, a longer list
"You should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for form; and any attraction, grasping, mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies" — SN 22.111's four terms are retained in full, with five additional terms appended, covering a wider range of ways a mind can remain bound to an aggregate.
Five new terms, five different kinds of binding
"Attraction" (upāya) names the pull toward an object; "grasping" (upādāna) the act of taking hold; "mental fixation" (cetaso adhiṭṭhāna) the mind's own settling upon it; "insistence" (abhinivesa) a more forceful clinging to a fixed position; and "underlying tendencies" (anusaya) the dormant, unconscious dispositions that persist even when no active craving is present.
Together with SN 22.111's four terms, this gives nine distinct ways a mind can remain bound to any given aggregate — from the most active and conscious (craving) to the most passive and dormant (underlying tendencies) — the fullest such vocabulary found anywhere in this vagga.
The identical palm-stump image, now covering more ground
"Thus that form will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future" — the exact same image as SN 22.111, now applied to this fuller list, suggesting that no matter how many distinct modes of attachment are named, the same complete and irreversible removal applies to all of them alike.
Closing Antavagga
This discourse closes the vagga without any explicit colophon or summary verse in the source text — the eleventh vagga simply ends here, its own name ("Ends") given earlier by its opening discourse's fourfold definition rather than by any closing formula.
Antavagga's own arc moves from technical definition (103-106) through contrastive analysis (107-110) to direct instruction (111-112) — three distinct modes of teaching the same underlying material about the five grasping aggregates, closing on the most practical and immediate of the three.
Key terms
The text
§1At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, you should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for form; and any attraction, grasping, mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies. Thus that form will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future.
§2You should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for feeling … perception … choices …
§3consciousness; and any attraction, grasping, mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies. Thus that consciousness will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future.”
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