Abhayasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Mahāvaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 19 · Section 675

[675] "Bhikkhus, there are these three searches (esanā). What three? The search for sensual pleasures (kāmesanā), the search for existence (bhavesanā), and the search for a holy life (brahmacariyesanā)" — [this] is to be expanded in full. (Summary verse:) Searches, discriminations (vidhā), the taint (āsava), existence, and the three on suffering-ness (dukkhatā); barrenness (khīla), stain (mala), and affliction (nīgha), feeling (vedanā), and craving (taṇhā). (The Esanā repetition series (peyyāla) of the Bojjhaṅga-saṃyutta is to be expanded by the wise as dependent on seclusion (viveka).) The Twelfth Chapter, on Searches (Esanāvagga), is finished.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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