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SN 36.2

Pleasure

Sukhasutta

from: 1. With Verses

Pleasure

“Mendicants, there are these three feelings. What three?

Pleasant, painful, and neutral feeling. These are the three feelings.

Whatever is felt
internally and externally—
whether pleasure or pain
as well as what’s neutral—

having known this as suffering,
deceptive, breaking apart,
one sees them vanish <j>as they’re experienced again and again:
that’s how to be free of desire for them.”

Translation: German (Ayyā Sabbamittā), English (Bhikkhu Sujato). Source: SuttaCentral / Bilara (public domain, CC0).

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