{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti50/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti50","id":"suttacentral_iti50","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti50/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard. \u201cMendicants, there are these three unskillful roots. What three? Greed, hate, and delusion. These are the three unskillful roots.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cWhen greed, hate, and delusion, have arisen inside oneself, they harm a person of wicked heart, as a bamboo is destroyed by its own fruit.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"Roots","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":85}