sn.47.85-94 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)

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. …”
(To be expanded as in SN 45.161–170.)
Searches, discriminations, defilements,
states of existence, three kinds of suffering,
barrenness, stains, and troubles,
feelings, craving, and thirst.