Perceptions and Notions

“…’Bhikkhus, as to the source
through which perceptions and notions
tinged by mental proliferation beset a man:
if nothing is found there to delight in,
welcome, and hold to,
this is the end of the underlying tendency to lust,
of the underlying tendency to aversion,
of the underlying tendency to views,
of the underlying tendency to doubt,
of the underlying tendency to conceit,
of the underlying tendency to desire for being,
of the underlying tendency to ignorance;
this is the end of resorting to rods and weapons,
of quarrels, brawls, disputes,
recrimination, malice, and false speech;
there these evil unwholesome states
cease without remainder…'”

~ Madhupindika Sutta, The Honeyball, Majjhima Nikāya 18, (Bhikkhu Bodhi 2005, 205)