SN 47.85-94 - Searches, Etc. Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato Source: https://suttacentral.net/sn47.85-94/en/sujato License: CC0-1.0 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.