"When the parents join together in sexual union, the causal relations call forth the direction in which the life must proceed. The mother gains ‘craving’ ['trishna'] and the father ‘anger'. When the father's semen comes forth, he says: 'This is mine'. At that, his mind becomes pleased. These three kinds of defilements, print the causal relations of in-between skandhas, and the subsequent five skandhas arise (i.e., form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness). This is comparable to how the stamp gets compressed in the clay, and letters emerge."
Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 35, on Bodhisattva Lion's Roar 3.
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