SN 36.1

CDB ii 1260

Samadhi Sutta: Concentration

translated from the Pali by

Nyanaponika Thera

"There are, O monks, these three feelings: pleasant feelings, painful feelings, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings."

A disciple of the Buddha, mindful, clearly comprehending, with his mind collected, he knows the feelings [1] and their origin, [2] knows whereby they cease [3] and knows the path that to the ending of feelings lead. [4] And when the end of feelings he has reached, such a monk, his thirsting quenched, attains Nibbana." [5]

Notes

1 .: Comy.: He knows the feelings by way of the Truth of Suffering.
2 .: Comy.: He knows them by way of the Truth of the Origin of Suffering.
3 .: Comy.: He knows, by way of the Truth of Cessation, that feelings cease in Nibbana.
4 .: Comy.: He knows the feelings by way of the Truth of the Path leading to the Cessation of Suffering.
5 .: Parinibbuto, "fully extinguished"; Comy.: through the full extinction of the defilements (kilesa-parinibbanaya).

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