SN 3.2 A Person

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SN 3.2 - A Person
Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato
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Linked Discourses 3.2
1. Shackles
A Person
At Sāvatthī.
Then King Pasenadi of Kosala went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him, “Sir, how many things arise inside a person for their harm, suffering, and discomfort?”
“Great king, three things arise inside a person for their harm, suffering, and discomfort. What three? Greed, hate, and delusion. These three things arise inside a person for their harm, suffering, and discomfort.”
That is what the Buddha said. …
“When greed, hate, and delusion,
originate inside oneself,
they harm a person of wicked heart,
as a bamboo is destroyed by its own fruit.”