user157: Considering the 12 nidanas

Ignorance    
Mental Volitions
Consciousness
"Name" and "Form"
The six senses
Contact  
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Becoming
Birth
Suffering and Death

What is the difference between craving and clinging? They seem very similar to me. It would be helpful if someone could reference the original Pali and draw out the nuances of these terms.
Many Thanks

user5154: Repeated craving becomes clinging. Another name for clinging is attachment.
Craving:
3 Types of craving: 

Sensual craving 
Craving to be
Craving not to be

Attachment:
Once attachment forms it's painful to sever.

We protect our object of attachment.
We like to be with our object of attachment.
We pine when we are apart from our object of attachment.

There are 4 types of attachments:

Sensual attachment
Attachment to views
Attachment to our idea of self
Attachment to rites & rituals


user151: Craving is when the baby reaches with desire for the pacifier and clinging is when the baby has the pacifier and won't let it go.
To distinguish craving from clinging, Buddhaghosa uses the following metaphor in this source:

"Craving is the aspiring to an object that one has not yet reached,
  like a thief's stretching out his hand in the dark; clinging is the
  grasping of an object that one has reached, like the thief's grasping
  his objective.... They are the roots of the suffering due to seeking
  and guarding."


157: <p>Considering the 12 nidanas</p>

<ol>
<li>Ignorance    </li>
<li>Mental Volitions</li>
<li>Consciousness</li>
<li>"Name" and "Form"</li>
<li>The six senses</li>
<li>Contact  </li>
<li>Feelings</li>
<li>Craving</li>
<li>Clinging</li>
<li>Becoming</li>
<li>Birth</li>
<li>Suffering and Death</li>
</ol>

<p>What is the difference between craving and clinging? They seem very similar to me. It would be helpful if someone could reference the original Pali and draw out the nuances of these terms.</p>

<p>Many Thanks</p>
 5154: <p>Repeated craving becomes clinging. Another name for clinging is attachment.</p>

<p><strong>Craving:</strong></p>

<p><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%E1%B9%87h%C4%81" rel="nofollow">3 Types of craving:</a> </p>

<ol>
<li>Sensual craving </li>
<li>Craving to be</li>
<li>Craving not to be</li>
</ol>

<p><strong>Attachment:</strong></p>

<p>Once attachment forms it's painful to sever.</p>

<ol>
<li>We protect our object of attachment.</li>
<li>We like to be with our object of attachment.</li>
<li>We pine when we are apart from our object of attachment.</li>
</ol>

<p><a href="http://www.buddhanet.net/budasa7.htm" rel="nofollow">There are 4 types of attachments:</a></p>

<ol>
<li>Sensual attachment</li>
<li>Attachment to views</li>
<li>Attachment to our idea of self</li>
<li>Attachment to rites &amp; rituals</li>
</ol>
 151: <p>Craving is when the baby reaches with desire for the pacifier and clinging is when the baby has the pacifier and won't let it go.</p>

<p>To distinguish craving from clinging, Buddhaghosa uses the following metaphor in this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up%C4%81d%C4%81na">source</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>"Craving is the aspiring to an object that one has not yet reached,
  like a thief's stretching out his hand in the dark; clinging is the
  grasping of an object that one has reached, like the thief's grasping
  his objective.... They are the roots of the suffering due to seeking
  and guarding."</p>
</blockquote>
