So It Was Said 50

The Book of the Threes

Chapter One

Roots

iti50:1 This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.

iti50:2 “Mendicants, there are these three unskillful roots. What three? Greed, hate, and delusion. These are the three unskillful roots.” The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:

iti50:3 “When greed, hate, and delusion, have arisen inside oneself, they harm a person of wicked heart, as a bamboo is destroyed by its own fruit.”

iti50:4 This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.