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### Samyutta Nikaya III.23

# Loka Sutta

# (Qualities of) the World

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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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."

Revised: Mon 10 September 2001