Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN36: Connected Discourses on Feeling

SN36:2 Pleasure

1"Bhikkhus, there are these three feelings. What three? Pleasant feeling, painful feeling, neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. These are the three feelings." sn.iv.205

2Whether it be pleasant or painful
Along with the neither-painful-nor-pleasant,
Both the internal and the external,
Whatever kind of feeling there is:

3Having known, "This is suffering,
Perishable, disintegrating,"
Having touched and touched them, seeing their fall,
Thus one loses one's passion for them. [n.228] I render mosadhammaṁ in pāda c in accordance with the gloss of Spk, nassanadhammaṁ, "subject to destruction," on which Spk-pṭ remarks: "There is nothing to be seen after its dissolution owing to its momentariness." The word may also be related to musā, from the same verbal root but with the acquired meaning "false." Thus mosadhamma could have been rendered "of false nature" or "deceitful." This meaning seems to be conveyed at MN III 245,16–18, and perhaps at Sn 757d, though it is also possible both nuances are intended in every case. Spk glosses phussa phussa vayaṁ passaṁ with ñāṇena phusitvā phusitvā vayaṁ passanto, "seeing its fall, having repeatedly contacted it (touched it) with knowledge." Spk-pṭ takes virajjati to be an allusion to the path (maggavirāgena virajjati).

1"Tisso imā, bhikkhave, vedanā. Katamā tisso? Sukhā vedanā, dukkhā vedanā, adukkhamasukhā vedanā – imā kho, bhikkhave, tisso vedanāti.

2Sukhaṁ vā yadi vā dukkhaṁ,
adukkhamasukhaṁ saha;
Ajjhattañca bahiddhā ca,
yaṁ kiñci atthi veditaṁ.

3Etaṁ dukkhanti ñatvāna,
mosadhammaṁ palokinaṁ;
Phussa phussa vayaṁ passaṁ,
evaṁ tattha virajjatī"ti.


Dutiyaṁ.

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