Returning to Our Luminosity: The Aggañña Sutta & Breaking Free from Binding Ways

The Aggañña Sutta offers a striking lens through which we can understand how systems of power, craving, and division take root—both in the world and within ourselves. This teaching traces the movement from a time of luminosity and ease into a world shaped by grasping, hierarchy, and suffering. How does this sutta help us better understand the forces of capitalism, oppression, and instability that reinforce patterns of craving? And more importantly, how can we break free from the binding ways that keep us caught in cycles of suffering? Through this teaching, we will examine how recognizing the constructed nature of the world and our conditioned responses allows us to loosen the grip of craving and move toward a truer liberation.