9.25.2020
The feelings of like, dislike, and neutral, arising from sensory input, create craving, craving conditions seeking, seeking conditions acquisition, acquisition conditions decision-making, decision-making conditions lustful desire, lustful desire conditions attachment, attachment conditions appropriation, appropriation conditions avarice, avarice conditions guarding of possessions, and because of the guarding of possessions there arise the taking up of stick and sword, quarrels, disputes, arguments, strife, abuse, lying and other evil unskilled states.

The Buddha, in the "Great Discourse on Conditioned-Arising"
(via Leigh Brasington)
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