Itivuttaka 55

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55. Dutiyaesanasuttam (3 Types of Searching Tendencies)

This was said by the Lord Buddha(Bhagavata), said by the Arahant, so I have heard:

“Monks,there are these three searches. Which three? The search for sensuality, the search for becoming (bhava), the search for a holy celibate life. These are the three searches.”

Sensuality-search, becoming-search, together with the holy celibate life search— i.e., grasping at truth based on an accumulation of viewpoints: through the relinquishing of searches & the abolishing of (philosophical)viewpoints of one dispassionate to all passion(raag), and released in the ending of craving(tanha), through the ending of searches, the monk is without perplexity, free of longing.