sn12.40:2.1 If you don’t intend or plan, but still have underlying tendencies, this becomes a support for the continuation of consciousness.
sn12.40:2.2 When this support exists, consciousness becomes established.
sn12.40:2.3 When consciousness is established and grows, there is an inclination.
sn12.40:2.4 When there is an inclination, there is coming and going.
sn12.40:2.5 When there is coming and going, there is passing away and reappearing.
sn12.40:2.6 When there is passing away and reappearing, future rebirth, old age, and death come to be, as do sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress.
sn12.40:2.7 That is how this entire mass of suffering originates.