Kosalasaṁyutta 2

Linked Discourses 3.2

1. Shackles

A Person

1 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?”

2 “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. …

3 “When greed, hate, and delusion,

originate inside oneself,

they harm a person of wicked heart,

as a bamboo is destroyed by its own fruit.”