on defilements 

kilesa samyutta

samutta nikāya 27 of 56

Translated by: Bhikkhu Sujato

Read by : Roland Kitchen

description

The “Linked Discourses on Corruptions” is the third of three similar sections, each of which takes a set of ten doctrinal items and presents it according to a set pattern. The current chapter focuses on the fact that desire for these things is a corruption of the mind.