Connected Discourses 3.2

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1. Linked Discourses 3.2
2. 1. Shackles
3. A Person
4. At Sāvatthī.
5. Then King Pasenadi of Kosala went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to the Buddha,
6. “Sir, how many things arise inside a person for their harm, suffering, and discomfort?”
7. “Great king, three things arise inside a person for their harm, suffering, and discomfort.
8. What three?
9. Greed,
10. hate,
11. and delusion.
12. These three things arise inside a person for their harm, suffering, and discomfort.”
13. That is what the Buddha said. …
14. “When greed, hate, and delusion,
15. have arisen inside oneself,
16. they harm a person of wicked heart,
17. as a bamboo is destroyed by its own fruit.”