So It Was Said 50

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1. So It Was Said 50
2. The Book of the Threes
3. Chapter One
4. Roots
5. This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
6. “Mendicants, there are these three unskillful roots.
7. What three?
8. Greed, hate, and delusion.
9. These are the three unskillful roots.”
10. The Buddha spoke this matter.
11. On this it is said:
12. “When greed, hate, and delusion,
13. have arisen inside oneself,
14. they harm a person of wicked heart,
15. as a bamboo is destroyed by its own fruit.”
16. This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.