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Sutta Piṭaka

SN 36.2

Sukhasutta

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Pleasure

“Mendicants, there are these three feelings. What three? Pleasant, painful, and neutral feeling. These are the three feelings.

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English · Bhikkhu Sujato

Whether it’s pleasant or painful, as well as what’s neutral, whatever there is that is felt internally and externally:

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English · Bhikkhu Sujato

having known, ‘this is suffering, deceptive, breaking apart’, seeing feelings vanish with every contact, that’s how they become free of desire for them.”

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Pāli text: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500 (M.L. Maniratana Bunnag Dhamma Society Fund), as published by SuttaCentral. Public domain. · Source ↗

Pāli text: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka, via SuttaCentral. Public domain.

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato. SuttaCentral, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). · Source ↗

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato (SuttaCentral), dedicated to the public domain via CC0. The translator respectfully requests that any use be in accordance with the values and principles of the Buddhist community. In particular, please do not use this work in AI training datasets, for the development of any AI model or algorithm, or in any AI-derived technologies.

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