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 the Buddha,

“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.”