Craving causes Conflict
and Competition!
The Blessed
Buddha once said:
Truly, caused by craving for sense pleasure, conditioned by craving
for simple
sense
pleasure, propelled by craving for sense pleasure,
wholly induced by yearning
for sense
pleasure, kings fight with kings,
princes with princes, priests with priests,
citizens with
citizens and
the mother quarrels with the son, the son with the mother,
the father
with
the son, the son with the father; brother quarrels with brother, brother with sister,
sister with brother, and friend brawl with friend!
Thus, pushed
into conflict, quarrelling,
and fighting, they readily attack
each other with fists and weapons, thereby suffering
both pain and death!
Furthermore, caused by craving for
plain sense pleasure, conditioned
by urge for simple sense pleasure, propelled by desire for sense
pleasure, wholly induced
by craving for sense pleasure, burglars
break
into houses, rob, plunder, steal from friends,
commit highway robbery, and seduce the wives of others. Then the rulers have such people
caught
and inflict upon
them various forms of punishment. Thereby they meet
deadly pain,
or even death.
Such is the misery of craving for sense pleasure,
accumulation of pain and
suffering in
this present life, caused, initiated,
prepared and entirely dependent upon
this evil yearning
for sense pleasure!
Finally: Beings engage in evil mental, verbal and bodily
behaviour; as a consequence of that, at breakup of the body, right after death,
they are
whirled
into the downfall, and re-arise in a state of misery,
in an unhappy destination, even
in the
abyss of one of the many inferno hells...
Such also is the misery of craving for sense
pleasure: Accumulation
of suffering in the future life, entirely due to craving for low
pleasure,
created by craving for pleasure, caused by craving for pleasure,
utterly
dependent on this
malign sense pleasure craving.
Majjhima Nikāya
13...
More on this painful Craving:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cut_Craving.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Sandcastles.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Craving_is_Cause.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Craving.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Feeling_Causes_and_Effects.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Proximate_Causes.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm
