{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sam/sn36-2.htm","path":"bud/sam/sn36-2.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sam/sn36-2.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).\nBe it a pleasant feeling, be it a painful feeling, be it neutral,\none's own or others', feelings of all kinds[1] --\nhe knows them all as ill, deceitful, evanescent.\nSeeing how they impinge again, again, and disappear,[2]\nhe wins detachment from the feelings, passion-free.\n1. On \"feelings of all kinds,\" see SN XXXVI.22. [Go back]\n2. Phussa phussa vayam disva, The Comy. explains differently, paraphrasing these words by \u00f1anena phusitva phusitva, \"repeatedly experiencing (them) by way of the knowledge (of rise and fall).\" These verses occur also in Sutta Nipata, v. 739, with one additional line. [Go back]","title":"SN XXXVI.2 Sukha Sutta","type":"page"}