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Linked Discourses · SN 36.2

  • Linked Discourses 36.2Saṁyutta Nikāya 36.2
  • 1. With Verses1. Sagāthāvagga

PleasureSukhasutta

“Mendicants, there are these three feelings.“Tisso imā, bhikkhave, vedanā. What three?Katamā tisso?

Pleasant, painful, and neutral feeling.Sukhā vedanā, dukkhā vedanā, adukkhamasukhā vedanā— These are the three feelings.imā kho, bhikkhave, tisso vedanāti.

Whether it’s pleasant or painful,Sukhaṁ vā yadi vā dukkhaṁ, as well as what’s neutral,adukkhamasukhaṁ saha; whatever there is that is feltAjjhattañca bahiddhā ca, internally and externally:yaṁ kiñci atthi veditaṁ.

having known, ‘this is suffering,Etaṁ dukkhanti ñatvāna, deceptive, breaking apart’,mosadhammaṁ palokinaṁ; seeing feelings vanish with every contact,Phussa phussa vayaṁ passaṁ, that’s how they become free of desire for them.”evaṁ tattha virajjatī”ti.

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