“Householder, you may wonder how the Thus-Gone One correctly understands the knowledge of affliction. Householder, the Thus-Gone One correctly understands how desire causes affliction. He correctly understands how desire and anger cause affliction. He correctly understands how desire and delusion cause affliction. He correctly understands how anger and desire cause affliction. He correctly understands how anger and delusion cause affliction. He correctly understands how delusion and desire cause affliction. He correctly understands how an even blend of these emotions causes affliction. He correctly understands how wrath causes affliction. He correctly understands how affliction is brought on by enmity, grief, jealousy, stinginess, deceit, trickery, shamelessness, inconsideration, haughtiness, conceit, arrogance, audaciousness, pride, and so forth, up to manifest pride. He correctly understands how inverse pride causes affliction. He correctly understands how trickery, cunning, and extortion cause affliction. He correctly understands how affliction is caused by seeking profit, seeking the unwholesome, lust, desire, longing, improper behavior, speaking harshly, impatience, hiding, concealing, improper desire, attachment and improper attachment, viewing the transitory collection, doubt, considering discipline and ritual to be supreme, chasing desire, ill will, lethargy and sloth, agitation, regret, doubt, sadness, happiness, sleepiness, overeating, mental factors, thinking, various notions, lack of independence, the unwholesome physical states, obstruction, and dissatisfaction. Householder, that is how the Thus-Gone One correctly understands affliction. When the Thus-Gone One is asked about the knowledge of affliction, he can respond for an eon, and so forth, up until…. Therefore, he will enjoy this temple with its sandalwood courtyard. As for the origin, cessation, and path, they are as previously taught.