Atthasatapariyaya Sutta: One Hundred Eight Feelings

SN 36.22

CDB ii 1280

translated from the Pali by

Nyanaponika Thera

Alternate translation: Thanissaro

"I shall show you, O monks, a way of Dhamma presentation by which there are one hundred and eight (feelings). Hence listen to me.

"In one way, O monks, I have spoken of two kinds of feelings, and in other ways of three, five, six, eighteen, thirty six and one hundred and eight feelings.

"What are the two feelings ? Bodily and mental feelings.

"What are the three feelings ? Pleasant, painful and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings.

"What are the five feelings ? The faculties of pleasure, pain, gladness, sadness and equanimity.

"What are the six feelings ? The feelings born of sense-impression through eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind.

"What are the eighteen feelings ? There are the (above) six feelings by which there is an approach (to the objects) in gladness; and there are six approaches in sadness and there are six approaches in equanimity.

"What are the thirty six feelings ? There are six feelings of gladness based on the household life and six based on renunciation; six feelings of sadness based on the household life and six based on renunciation; six feelings of equanimity based on the household life and six based on renunciation.

"What are the hundred and eight feelings ? There are the (above) thirty six feelings of the past; there are thirty six of the future and there are thirty six of the present.

"These, O monks, are called the hundred and eight feelings; and this is the way of the Dhamma presentation by which there are one hundred and eight feelings."

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