{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sam/sn36-12.htm","path":"bud/sam/sn36-12.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sam/sn36-12.htm","text":"From Contemplation of Feeling: The Discourse-grouping on the Feelings (WH 303), translated from the Pali by Nyanaponika Thera (Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1983).\nJust as in the sky above winds of various kinds are blowing:\nComing from the east or west, blowing from the north or south,\nSome carry dust and others not, cold are some and others hot,\nSome are fierce and others mild -- their blowing is so different.\nSo also in this body here, feelings of different kind arise:\nThe pleasant feelings and the painful and the neutral ones.\nBut if a monk is ardent and does not neglect\nTo practice mindfulness and comprehension clear,\nThe nature of all feelings will he understand,\nAnd having penetrated them, he will be taint-free in this very life.\nMature in knowledge, firm in Dhamma's ways,\nWhen once his life-span ends, his body breaks,\nAll measure and concept he has transcended.","title":"SN XXXVI.12 Akasa Sutta","type":"page"}