Tatiyapaṇṇāsaka

Suttapiṭaka · Aṅguttaranikāya · Ekakanipāta · Dukanipāta · Tikanipāta · Vol. 20 · Section 398

[398] Bhikkhus, there are these two searches (esanā). What two? The search for material things (āmisesanā) and the search for the Dhamma (dhammesanā). These, bhikkhus, are the two searches. Of these two searches, bhikkhus, this is the foremost, namely, the search for the Dhamma.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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