1"Friend Sāriputta, it is said, ‘suffering, suffering.’ What now is suffering?"

"There are, friend, these three kinds of suffering: the suffering due to pain, the suffering due to formations, the suffering due to change. These are the three kinds of suffering." [n.274] The three types are explained at Vism 499,14–21 (Ppn 16:34–35). Briefly, suffering due to pain (dukkhadukkhatā) is painful bodily and mental feeling; suffering due to the formations (saṅkhāradukkhatā) is all conditioned phenomena of the three planes, because they are oppressed by rise and fall; and suffering due to change (viparināmadukkhtā) is pleasant feeling, which brings suffering when it comes to an end.

"But, friend, is there a path, is there a way for the full understanding of these three kinds of suffering?"

"There is a path, friend, there is a way … this Noble Eightfold Path … ."

1"‘Dukkhaṁ, dukkhan’ti, āvuso sāriputta, vuccati. Katamaṁ nu kho, āvuso, dukkhan"ti?

"Tisso imā, āvuso, dukkhatā. Dukkhadukkhatā, saṅkhāradukkhatā, vipariṇāmadukkhatā – imā kho, āvuso, tisso dukkhatā"ti.

"Atthi panāvuso maggo atthi paṭipadā, etāsaṁ dukkhatānaṁ pariññāyā"ti?

"Atthi kho, āvuso, maggo atthi paṭipadā, etāsaṁ dukkhatānaṁ pariññāyā"ti. "Katamo panāvuso, maggo katamā paṭipadā, etāsaṁ dukkhatānaṁ pariññāyā"ti? "Ayameva kho, āvuso, ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo, etāsaṁ dukkhatānaṁ pariññāya, seyyathidaṁ – sammādiṭṭhi … pe … sammāsamādhi. Ayaṁ kho, āvuso, maggo ayaṁ paṭipadā, etāsaṁ dukkhatānaṁ pariññāyā"ti. "Bhaddako, āvuso, maggo bhaddikā paṭipadā, etāsaṁ dukkhatānaṁ pariññāya. Alañca panāvuso sāriputta, appamādāyā"ti.

Cuddasamaṁ.