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Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Linked Discourses

Vol 1:
Verses
SN1-11
Vol 2:
Causation
SN12-21
Vol 3:
Aggregates
SN22-34
Vol 4:
Sense Bases
SN35-44
Vol 5:
Great Book
SN45-56

36. Vedanāsaṁyutta: On Feelings

I. With Verses — SN36.2: Pleasure

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.