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Loka Sutta: (Qualities of) the World

Loka Sutta

Summary: Three common things in the world that inevitably lead to harm and suffering.

SN 3.23 PTS: S i 98 CDB i 189

Loka Sutta: (Qualities of) the World

translated from the Pali by

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

At Savatthi. As he was sitting to one side, King Pasenadi Kosala said to the Blessed One: “How many qualities of the world that, when arising, arise for harm, stress, & discomfort?”

“Three qualities of the world, great king, when arising, arise for harm, stress, & discomfort. Which three? Greed, great king, is a quality of the world that, when arising, arises for harm, stress, & discomfort. Aversion… Delusion is a quality of the world that, when arising, arises for harm, stress, & discomfort. These are the three qualities of the world, great king, that when arising, arise for harm, stress, & discomfort.”

That is what the Blessed One said. Having said that, the One Well-Gone, the Teacher, said further:

Greed, aversion, & delusion — born from oneself — destroy the person of evil awareness, as its own fruit, the reed.


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