Happiness

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Passages where sukha occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

• Tipiṭaka · Majjhima Nikāya 59 Primary passage

  Und keiner war in der Lage, den anderen zu überzeugen. Der Ehrwürdige Ānanda hörte dieses Gespräch zwischen dem Ehrwürdigen Udāyī und Pañcakaṅga. Er ging zum Buddha, verbeugte sich, setzte sich zur Seite hin und berichtete dem Buddha, worüber die beiden gesprochen hatten. Darauf sagte der Buddha zu ihm: „Ānanda, die Erklärung des Mönchs Udāyī, der der Kammerherr Pañcakaṅga nicht zugestimmt hat, war ganz richtig. Und die Erklärung Pañcakaṅgas, der Udāyī nicht zugestimmt hat, war auch ganz richtig. In einer Erklärung habe ich von zwei Gefühlen gesprochen. In einer anderen Erklärung habe ich von drei Gefühlen gesprochen, oder von fünf, von sechs, von achtzehn, von sechsunddreißig oder von …

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  Sukhā vedanā, dukkhā vedanā, adukkhamasukhā vedanā— imā kho, thapati, tisso vedanā vuttā bhagavatā”ti. Tatiyampi kho pañcakaṅgo thapati āyasmantaṁ udāyiṁ etadavoca: “na kho, bhante udāyi, tisso vedanā vuttā bhagavatā, dve vedanā vuttā bhagavatā— sukhā vedanā, dukkhā vedanā. Yāyaṁ, bhante, adukkhamasukhā vedanā santasmiṁ esā paṇīte sukhe vuttā bhagavatā”ti. Neva kho sakkhi āyasmā udāyī pañcakaṅgaṁ thapatiṁ saññāpetuṁ, na panāsakkhi pañcakaṅgo thapati āyasmantaṁ udāyiṁ saññāpetuṁ. Assosi kho āyasmā ānando āyasmato udāyissa pañcakaṅgena thapatinā saddhiṁ imaṁ kathāsallāpaṁ. Atha kho āyasmā ānando yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi.

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• Nyingma treasure texts · Dukngal Rangdrol-Sādhana · German

  Die erstaunlichen, wundersamen Substanzen großer Glückseligkeit – སྨན་གཏོར་རཀྟ་ཚོགས་མཆོད་དང་རེ་སྤྲོ༔ men tor rakta tsokchö dang re tro Amṛta, Torma, Rakta, und Festopfergaben – so erquickend, ཤེས་རབ་རིག་མ་བློ་འདས་གཉུག་མའི་གཤིས༔ sherab rikma lode nyukme shi die Weisheitsgefährtin und das, was jenseits des Geistes ist, die wahre Natur – འབུལ་ལོ་བཞེས་ནས་དབང་དང་དངོས་གྲུབ་སྩོལ༔ bul lo zhe ne wang dang ngödrub tsol all dies bringe ich dar. Bitte nehmt es an und gewährt uns Ermächtigung und Errungenschaft!

• Kangyur · The Limits of Life · English

  idiom sukha- ( sparśa- ) vihara , “to be comfortable, to be at ease.”

• Lojong · The Essential Instruction on the Preliminary, Sevenfold Mind Training · English

  Contemplation of Temporary and Lasting Happiness Training the mind by reflecting on temporary happiness and lasting bliss involves the following. Consider how non-virtuous actions give rise to all the various forms of suffering and the lower realms, while virtues bring about all the various forms of happiness and the higher realms. Higher and lower states of saṃsāra alternate like the revolving rim of a water wheel. How terrible are the shifts of fortune and the inability to remain!

• Dzogchen · Commentary on Calling the Guru from Afar · English

  Those who form positive connections with them are blessed to obtain buddhahood in a single lifetime, while those who form negative connections with them are blessed to gradually bring their experience of saṃsāra to an end. Such are their abilities. At all times and in all circumstances, they are happy, meaning they’re filled not with the conceptual sensation of bliss but with the sacred great bliss that is unchanging and everlasting.

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