Chapter One

This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.

“Mendicants, there are these three unskillful roots.

What three?

Greed, hate, and delusion.

These are the three unskillful roots.”

The Buddha spoke this matter.

On this it is said:

“When greed, hate, and delusion,

have arisen inside oneself,

they harm a person of wicked heart,

as a bamboo is destroyed by its own fruit.”

This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.