Iti 56

Itivuttaka: The Group of Threes

translated from the Pali by

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "There are these three fermentations. Which three? The fermentation of sensuality, the fermentation of becoming, the fermentation of ignorance. These are the three fermentations."

Centered, mindful, alert, the Awakened One's disciple discerns fermentations, how fermentations come into play, where they cease, & the path to their ending.

With the ending of fermentations, a monk free of want is totally unbound.