Of the three forms of grasping, “this is mine” is clinging with craving, “this I am” is clinging with conceit, and “this is my self” is clinging with wrong view. When one has taken delight in an object with craving, even if the object does not belong to one, it is grasped as if it does.

Thus, seeing delightful objects in the market, we take delight in them as if we already owned them. We take a fancy to jackets and skirts, we put them on in our imagination; shoes too, we wear in our imagination, as if they were already our own. We grasp everything, if we fancy it, animate or inanimate, as if it was our own.

Therefore, the Blessed One asked whether it was wise to grasp things that are impermanent, suffering and subject to change and delight in them as “mine”; in other words, whether it is proper to delight in suffering.

Sayadaw Mahasi
From: The Great Discourse On Not Self
Source: Huong Dao Temple

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