SN 45-56 The Group of Connected Discourses on the Path – Mahāvaggasaṁyutta > SN 49 Linked Discourses on the Right Efforts – Sammappadhānasaṁyutta > SN 49.35–44 Ten Discourses on Searches, Etc.

Linked Discourses 49.35–44 – Saṁyutta Nikāya 49.35–44

4. Searches – 4. Esanāvagga

SN 49.35–44 Ten Discourses on Searches, Etc. – Esanādisuttadasaka

“Bhikkhū, there are these three searches.

“Tisso imā, bhikkhave, esanā.

What three?

Katamā tisso?

The search for sensual pleasures, the search for continued existence, and the search for a spiritual path.

Kāmesanā, bhavesanā, brahmacariyesanā—

These are the three searches.

imā kho, bhikkhave, tisso esanā.

The four right efforts should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these three searches.

Imāsaṁ kho, bhikkhave, tissannaṁ esanānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya cattāro sammappadhānā bhāvetabbā.

What four?

Katame cattāro?

It’s when a bhikkhu generates enthusiasm, tries, makes an effort, exerts the mind, and strives so that bad, unskillful qualities don’t arise. …

Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu anuppannānaṁ …pe…

so that skillful qualities that have arisen remain, are not lost, but increase, mature, and are completed by development.

uppannānaṁ kusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ ṭhitiyā asammosāya bhiyyobhāvāya vepullāya bhāvanāya pāripūriyā chandaṁ janeti vāyamati vīriyaṁ ārabhati cittaṁ paggaṇhāti padahati.

These four right efforts should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these three searches.”

Imāsaṁ kho, bhikkhave, tissannaṁ esanānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya ime cattāro sammappadhānā bhāvetabbā”ti.

(To be expanded as in SN 45.161–170.)

(Vitthāretabbaṁ.)

Dasamaṁ.

Esanāvaggo catuttho.

Searches, discriminations, defilements,

Tassuddānaṁ

states of existence, three kinds of suffering,

Esanā vidhā āsavo,

barrenness, stains, and troubles,

Bhavo ca dukkhatā tisso;

feelings, craving, and thirst.

Khilaṁ malañca nīgho ca,