Saṁyutta Nikāya
IV. Saḷāyatana Vagga
36: Vedanā Saṁyutta
1. Sagāthā Vagga

IV. Kindred Sayings on the 'Six-Fold Sphere' of Sense and Other Subjects

36: Kindred Sayings about Feeling

1. With Verses

Sutta 1

Samādhi Suttaṁ

Concentration¹

 

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Thus have I heard:

The Exalted One once addressed the brethren, saying:

"Brethren."

"Lord," responded those brethren to the Exalted One.

The Exalted One thus spoke:

"There are these three feelings, brethren.

What three?

Feeling that is pleasant,
feeling that is painful,
and feeling that is neither pleasant nor painful.

These, Brethren, are the three feelings.

Collected, 'ware, the mindful follower
Of the Awakened One well understands
Feelings, and how they come to be, and where
They cease, and what the way to feelings' end.²
That brother who has ended them, therefore
No longer hungers.³ He is set free.

 

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¹ Samādhi.

² Text misprints khaya-gāminaṅ.

³ Nicchāto = nittaṇho. Comy.