Hopping like rabbits

I subscribe to a daily email from Beliefnet called "Daily Buddhist Wisdom". Here's today's offering:

Encircled with craving,
people hop 'round & around
like a rabbit caught in a snare.
Tied with fetters & bonds
they go on to suffering,
again & again, for long.

Encircled with craving,
people hop 'round & around
like a rabbit caught in a snare.
So a monk
should dispel craving,
should aspire to dispassion
for himself.

-Dhammapada, 24, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

This not only applies to monks, by the way! All of us will do well to "aspire to dispassion" - that is, non-attachment. This is truly the way to happiness.