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.