Linked Discourses 47.85–94

9. Searches

Searches, Etc.

“Mendicants, there are these three searches.
What three?
The search for sensual pleasures, the search for continued existence, and the search for a spiritual path. …”
(Tell in full as in SN 45.161–170.)

Searches, discriminations, defilements,
states of existence, three kinds of suffering,
barrenness, stains, and troubles,
feelings, craving, and thirst.