Dutiyapaṇṇāsaka

Suttapiṭaka · Aṅguttaranikāya · Ekakanipāta · Dukanipāta · Tikanipāta · Vol. 20 · Section 326

[326] Bhikkhus, bad, unwholesome states (pāpakā akusalā dhammā) arise with a condition, not without a condition. Through the abandoning of that very condition, thus those bad, unwholesome states do not come to be.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.