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title: "Linked Discourses V: The Great Book · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Mahāvagga"
author: "The Buddha"
translator: "Bhikkhu Sujato"
languages: [pi, en]
shelf: "Pali Canon"
section: 25 of 105
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/25/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Linked Discourses V: The Great Book · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Mahāvagga, section 25. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/25/"
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# Linked Discourses V: The Great Book · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Mahāvagga

*The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato*

The path: the noble eightfold path, the factors of awakening, mindfulness meditation, breathing, and the first teaching, Turning the Wheel of Dhamma.

> Pali: the Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka (Buddha Jayanti edition, 2500), from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0).

> English: Bhikkhu Sujato, from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). Notes are not included.

> Rows follow the segment numbers the two texts share, gathered into paragraphs; verse keeps its lines.

## 25. Searches · SN 46.111–120

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/25/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/25/#p-N

[¶0] SN 46.111–120 · Searches, Etc.

> Pali: SN 46.111–120 · Esanādisutta

[¶1] “Mendicants, there are these three searches. What three? The search for sensual pleasures, the search for continued existence, and the search for a spiritual path. …”

> Pali: “Tisso imā, bhikkhave, esanā. Katamā tisso? Kāmesanā, bhavesanā, brahmacariyesanā”ti vitthāretabbaṁ.

[¶2] > Pali: Esanāvaggo dvādasamo.

[¶3] > Pali: Tassuddānaṁ

[¶4] > Pali: Esanā vidhā āsavo,
Bhavo ca dukkhatā tisso;
Khilaṁ malañca nīgho ca,
Vedanā taṇhā tasināya cāti.

[¶5] (Tell in full as in SN 45.161–170.)

> Pali: (Bojjhaṅgasaṁyuttassa esanāpeyyālaṁ vivekanissitato vitthāretabbaṁ.)