Tikanipāta 158

Numbered Discourses 3.183–352

The Chapter on Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed

Untitled Discourses on Greed, Etc.

1 “For insight into greed, three things should be developed. What three? Emptiness immersion; signless immersion; and undirected immersion. For insight into greed, these three things should be developed.

2 For the complete understanding of greed … complete ending … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … letting go …

3 hate … delusion … anger … acrimony … disdain … contempt … jealousy … stinginess … deceitfulness … deviousness … obstinacy … aggression … conceit … arrogance … vanity … negligence … insight … complete understanding … complete ending … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … For the letting go of negligence, these three things should be developed.”

4 That is what the Buddha said. Satisfied, the mendicants approved what the Buddha said.

8 The Book of the Threes is finished.