36. Vedanāsaṁyutta: On Feelings
I. With Verses — SN36.2: Pleasure
- © Translated from the Pali by Bhante Sujato. (More copyright information)
1“Mendicants, there are these three feelings. What three?
Pleasant, painful, and neutral feeling. These are the three feelings.
2Whatever is felt
internally and externally —
whether pleasure or pain
as well as what’s neutral —
3having known this as suffering,
deceptive, falling apart,
one sees them vanish as they’re experienced again and again:
that’s how to be free of desire for them.”
1"Tisso imā, bhikkhave, vedanā. Katamā tisso?
Sukhā vedanā, dukkhā vedanā, adukkhamasukhā vedanā – imā kho, bhikkhave, tisso vedanāti.
2Sukhaṁ vā yadi vā dukkhaṁ,
adukkhamasukhaṁ saha;
Ajjhattañca bahiddhā ca,
yaṁ kiñci atthi veditaṁ.
3Etaṁ dukkhanti ñatvāna,
mosadhammaṁ palokinaṁ;
Phussa phussa vayaṁ passaṁ,
evaṁ tattha virajjatī"ti.
Dutiyaṁ.