SN45:169 Feelings
- © Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi. (More copyright information)
1"Bhikkhus, there are these three feelings. What three?
Pleasant feeling, painful feeling, neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling.
These are the three feelings.
The Noble Eightfold Path is to be developed
- for direct knowledge of these three feelings,
- for the full understanding of them,
- for their utter destruction,
- for their abandoning.
What Noble Eightfold Path?
Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu develops right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration,
- which is based upon seclusion, dispassion, and cessation, maturing in release;
- which has as its final goal the removal of lust, the removal of hatred, the removal of delusion;
- which has the Deathless as its ground, the Deathless as its destination, the Deathless as its final goal;
- which slants, slopes, and inclines towards Nibbāna.
This Noble Eightfold Path is to be developed
- for direct knowledge of these three feelings,
- for the full understanding of them,
- for their utter destruction,
- for their abandoning."
This sutta may be fully expanded in accordance with the fourfold method employed in SN45.161.
1"Tisso imā, bhikkhave, vedanā. Katamā tisso?
Sukhā vedanā, dukkhā vedanā, adukkhamasukhā vedanā – imā kho, bhikkhave, tisso vedanā.
imāsaṁ kho, bhikkhave, tissannaṁ vedanānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya
… pe … ayaṁ ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo bhāvetabbo"ti.
Navamaṁ.
