{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sam/sn36-3.htm","path":"bud/sam/sn36-3.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sam/sn36-3.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).\n\"If a monk has given up the tendency to lust in regard to pleasant feeling, the tendency to resistance in regard to painful feelings, and the tendency to ignorance in regard to neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings, then he is called one who is free of (unwholesome) tendencies, one who has the right outlook. He has cut off craving, severed the fetters (to future existence), and through the full penetration of conceit,[2] he has made an end of suffering.\"\nIf one feels joy, but knows not feeling's nature,\nbent towards greed, he will not find deliverance.\nIf one feels pain, but knows not feeling's nature,\nbent toward hate, he will not find deliverance.\nAnd even neutral feeling which as peaceful\nthe Lord of Wisdom has proclaimed,\nif, in attachment, he should cling to it,\nhe will not be free from the round of ill.\nAnd having done so, in this very life\nwill be free from cankers, free from taints.\nMature in knowledge, firm in Dhamma's ways,\nwhen once his life-span ends, his body breaks,\nall measure and concept he has transcended.\n2. \"Conceit\" refers in particular to self-conceit (asmi-mano), i.e., personality belief, on both the intellectual and the emotional levels. [Go back]","title":"SN XXXVI.3 Pahana Sutta","type":"page"}