AN 2.86

English translation by Bhikkhu Candana.

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86. “Bhikkhus, evil and damaging qualities arise in the first place, because they themselves rely on being ‘prepared’ through their ‘winding up’, and cannot be or even arise without some act of preparing, winding or ‘loading up’, whether willfully or not.

“Therefore, when that mechanism of preparing or loading up is destroyed and removed, those evil and damaging qualities will naturally fade away and occur no more.”