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Esanādisuttadasaka

Ten Discourses on Searches, Etc.

“Tisso imā, bhikkhave, esanā.
“Mendicants, there are these three searches.

Katamā tisso?
What three?

Kāmesanā, bhavesanā, brahmacariyesanā—
The search for sensual pleasures, the search for continued existence, and the search for a spiritual path.

imā kho, bhikkhave, tisso esanā.
These are the three searches.

Imāsaṁ kho, bhikkhave, tissannaṁ esanānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya cattāro sammappadhānā bhāvetabbā.
The four right efforts should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these three searches.

Katame cattāro?
What four?

Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu anuppannānaṁ …pe…
It’s when a mendicant generates enthusiasm, tries, makes an effort, exerts the mind, and strives so that bad, unskillful qualities don’t arise. …

uppannānaṁ kusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ ṭhitiyā asammosāya bhiyyobhāvāya vepullāya bhāvanāya pāripūriyā chandaṁ janeti vāyamati vīriyaṁ ārabhati cittaṁ paggaṇhāti padahati.
so that skillful qualities that have arisen remain, are not lost, but increase, mature, and are completed by development.

Imāsaṁ kho, bhikkhave, tissannaṁ esanānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya ime cattāro sammappadhānā bhāvetabbā”ti.
These four right efforts should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these three searches.”

(Vitthāretabbaṁ.)
(Tell in full as in SN 45.161–170.)

Dasamaṁ.

Esanāvaggo catuttho.

Tassuddānaṁ

Esanā vidhā āsavo,
Searches, discriminations, defilements,

Bhavo ca dukkhatā tisso;
states of existence, three kinds of suffering,

Khilaṁ malañca nīgho ca,
barrenness, stains, and troubles,

Vedanā taṇhā tasinā cāti.
feelings, craving, and thirst.