Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c9.s1.t2.2

c9.s1.t2.2

“This, O monks, is the sacred truth of the origin of suffering: it is the thirst (for being), which leads from birth to birth, together with lust and desire, which finds gratification here and there: the thirst for pleasures, the thirst for being, the thirst for power.