➥ ajjhosāna:

• for ajjhosāna:
  • cleaving
• ajjhosānaṁ: cleaving
• ajjhosāya: cleaving to
• ajjhosāya tiṭṭhato: cleaving to

➥ ajjhosānaṁ: (main article see: ajjhosāna)

Illustration: ajjhosānaṁ, cleaving

Because of fondness and attachment, cleaving.

chandarāgaṁ paṭicca ajjhosānaṁ

Because of cleaving, possessiveness.

ajjhosānaṁ paṭicca pariggaho. (AN iv 401)

The fondness, clinging, attraction, and cleaving within these five grasped aggregates is the origin of suffering.

yo imesu pañcasupādānakkhandhesu chando ālayo anunayo ajjhosānaṁ so dukkhasamudayo. (MN i 191)

➥ ajjhosāya: (main article see: ajjhosāna)

Illustration: ajjhosāya, cleaving to

Whether enjoying a sweet delicious tasteable object, or sometimes tasting what is unpalatable, eat the sweet tasteable object without cleaving, and do not show dislike for the unpalatable.

Rasañca bhotvā sāditañca sāduṁ athopi bhotvāna asādumekadā
Sāduṁ rasaṁ nājjhosāya bhuñje virodhamāsādusu nopadaṁsaye. (SN iv 71)

Whatever sense impression he experiences, pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral, he takes delight in that sense impression, he welcomes it, and persists in cleaving to it. In so doing, spiritually fettering delight arises.

yaṁ kiñci vedanaṁ vedeti sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā so taṁ vedanaṁ abhinandati abhivadati ajjhosāya tiṭṭhati tassa taṁ vedanaṁ abhinandato abhivadato ajjhosāya tiṭṭhato uppajjati nandī (MN i 266)

Illustration: ajjhosāya tiṭṭhato, cleaving to

In seeing a visible object with mindfulness muddled, focusing on the agreeable aspect, one experiences it with a mind of attachment and persists in cleaving to it.

Rūpaṁ disvā sati muṭṭhā piyaṁ nimittaṁ manasikaroto
Sārattacitto vedeti tañca ajjhosa tiṭṭhati. (SN iv 76)