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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
Clinging to people, possessions or experiences as though they could provide permanent security or satisfaction.
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Paper 1
Revise: Three Marks of ExistenceBuddhists believe that understanding reality more clearly helps people loosen their attachments and reduce suffering. The three marks belong together: things change, people have no unchanging inner self, and clinging to what changes cannot bring lasting satisfaction.
Paper 1
Clinging to possessions, pleasures or experiences as though lasting satisfaction depends on keeping them.
Revise: Good, Evil and Suffering in BuddhismAttachment is clinging to something as though our happiness depends on possessing or keeping it. Enjoying something is not necessarily the same as being attached to it. The problem develops when desire controls our responses: we constantly want more, cannot tolerate loss or are willing to harm others to obtain what we want.
When explaining an influence, connect the belief to a response: understanding impermanence can encourage less attachment to possessions, reducing distress when they change or are lost.
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