Saɱyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
36. Vedanā Saɱyutta
2. Raho-Gata Vagga
Sutta 18
Dutiya Aṭṭhaka Suttaɱ
A Number of Bhikkhus 2
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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[1][pts] Then the a number of bhikkhus approached the Blessed One, paid homage to him, and sat down to one side.
The Blessed One then said to those bhikkhus as they were sitting to one side:
"Bhikkhus, what now is feeling?
What is the origin of feeling?
What is the cessation of feeling?
What is the way leading to the cessation of feeling?
What is the gratification in feeling?
What is the danger?
What is the escape?"
"Venerable sir, our teachings are rooted in the Blessed One, guided by the Blessed One, take recourse in the Blessed One.
It would be good if the Blessed One would clear up the meaning of this statement.
Having heard it from him, the bhikkhus will remember it."
"Then listen and attend closely, bhikkhus, I will speak."
"Yes, venerable sir," the Venerable Ānandareplied.
The Blessed One said this:
"Bhikkhus these three feelings — pleasant feeling, painful feeling, neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling — are called feeling.
With the arising of contact there is the arising of feeling.
With the cessation of contact there is the cessation of feeling.
This Noble Eightfold Path is the way leading to the cessation of feeling; that is, right view ... right concentration.[ed1]
The pleasure and joy that arise in dependence on feeling: this is the gratification in feeling.
That feeling is impermanent, suffering, and subject to change: this is the danger in feeling.
The removal and abandonment of desire and lust for feeling: this is the escape from feeling.
"Then, bhikkhus I have also taught the successive cessation of formations ... (as in §11) ....
For a bhikkhu whose taints are destroyed, lust has been tranquillized, hatred has been tranquillized, delusion has been tranquillized."
[ed1] Elsewhere completed: right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.
