Identify THREE naming words in the following sentence.
Gautama Buddha said that desire is the root cause of all evils.
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According to Theravada Buddhism, Gotama Buddha said, desire (craving) is cause of suffering, and ignorance is root cause of (desire and) suffering.
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What now, monks, is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering; ageing is suffering; illness is suffering; death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering; association with the unloved is suffering; separation from the loved is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
And what, monks, is the noble truth of the origin of suffering? With ignorance as condition volitional formations come to be. With the volitional formations as condition, consciousness; with consciousness as condition, name-and-form; with name-and-form as condition, the six sense bases; with the six sense bases as condition, contact; with contact as condition, feeling; with feeling as condition, craving; with craving as condition, clinging; with clinging as condition, the process of becoming; with the process of becoming as condition, birth; with birth as condition, ageing and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair come to be. Such is the origin of this whole mass of suffering. This, monks, is called the noble truth of the origin of suffering