Saɱyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
36. Vedanā Saɱyutta
1. Sagāthā Vagga

The Connected Discourses of the Buddha
IV. The Book of the Six Sense Bases
36: Connected Discourses on Feeling
1. With Verses

Sutta 2

Sukhaya Suttaɱ

Pleasure

Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi

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[204] [1260]

[1][pts][nypo] "Bhikkhus, there are these three feelings.

What three?

Pleasant feeling, painful feeling, neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling.

These are the three feelings."

[205] Whether it be pleasant or painful
Along with the neither-painful-nor-pleasant,
Both the internal and the external,
Whatever kind of feeling there is:
Having known, "This is suffering,
Perishable, disintegrating."
Having touched and touched them, seeing their fall,
Thus one loses one's passion for them.