AN 2.77 Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato Source: https://suttacentral.net/an2.77/en/sujato License: CC0-1.0 Numbered Discourses 2.77–86 The Chapter with a Basis 77 “Bad, unskillful qualities, mendicants, arise with a basis, not without a basis. By giving up that basis, those bad, unskillful qualities do not occur.”