— conceit, jealousy, ambition, lethargy, arrogance, and the rest — and from all these defilements together, the roots and the branches, comes "dukkha" in its diverse forms: as pain and sorrow, as fear and discontent, as the aimless drifting through the round of birth and death.”
In these erroneous perceptions and ideas we find the soil that nurtures the defilements. The mind catches sight of some possibility of pleasure, accepts it at face value, and the result is greed