Ten Discourses on Searches, Etc.Esanādisuttadasaka

“Mendicants, there are these three searches.“Tisso imā, bhikkhave, esanā. What three?Katamā tisso? The search for sensual pleasures, the search for continued existence, and the search for a spiritual path.Kāmesanā, bhavesanā, brahmacariyesanā— These are the three searches.imā kho, bhikkhave, tisso esanā.

The four right efforts should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these three searches.Imāsaṁ kho, bhikkhave, tissannaṁ esanānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya cattāro sammappadhānā bhāvetabbā. What four?Katame cattāro? It’s when a mendicant generates enthusiasm, tries, makes an effort, exerts the mind, and strives so that bad, unskillful qualities don’t arise. …Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu anuppannānaṁ …pe… so that skillful qualities that have arisen remain, are not lost, but increase, mature, and are fully developed.uppannānaṁ kusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ ṭhitiyā asammosāya bhiyyobhāvāya vepullāya bhāvanāya pāripūriyā chandaṁ janeti vāyamati vīriyaṁ ārabhati cittaṁ paggaṇhāti padahati.

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

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

Searches, discriminations, defilements,Esanā vidhā āsavo, states of existence, three kinds of suffering,Bhavo ca dukkhatā tisso; barrenness, stains, and troubles,Khilaṁ malañca nīgho ca, feelings, craving, and thirst.Vedanā taṇhā tasinā cāti.