HEAPING UP OF PRESENT SUFFERING

  Verily, due to sensuous craving, conditioned through sensuous

craving, impelled by sensuous craving, entirely moved by sensuous

craving, kings fight with kings, princes with princes, priests with

priests, citizens with citizens; 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, friend with friend. Thus, given to dissension, quarreling and

fighting, they fall upon one another with fists, sticks, or weapons.

And thereby they suffer death or deadly pain.

  And further, due to sensuous craving, conditioned through sensuous

craving, impelled by sensuous craving, entirely moved by sensuous

craving, people break into houses, rob, plunder, pillage whole houses,

commit highway robbery, seduce the wives of others. Then, the rulers

have such people caught, and inflict on them various forms of

punishment. And thereby they incur death or deadly pain. Now, this

is the misery of sensuous craving, the heaping up of suffering in this

present life, due to sensuous craving, conditioned through sensuous

craving, caused by sensuous craving, entirely dependent on sensuous

craving.