{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sam/sn36-5.htm","path":"bud/sam/sn36-5.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sam/sn36-5.htm","text":"Main index\nBuddhism index\nindex\nSamyutta Nikaya XXXVI.5\nDatthabba Sutta\nTo Be Known\nTranslated from the Pali by Nyanaponika Thera\nFor free distribution only, \nby arrangement with the Buddhist Publication Society\nContext of this sutta\nFrom Contemplation of Feeling: The Discourse-grouping on the Feelings (WH 303), translated from the Pali by Nyanaponika Thera (Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1983).\n\"There are, O monks, these three feelings: pleasant, painful and neither-painful-nor-pleasant. Pleasant feelings should be known as painful, painful feelings should be known as a thorn, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings should be known as impermanent. If a monk has known the feelings in such a way, it is said of him that he has the right outlook. He has cut off craving, severed the fetters (to existence) and, through the full penetration of conceit, he has made an end of suffering.\"\nWho sees the pain in happiness and views the painful feeling as a thorn,\nperceives the transience in neutral feeling which is peaceful -- \nright outlook, truly, has such a monk who fully understands these feelings;\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.\nRevised: Sat 17 October 1998","title":"SN XXXVI.5 Datthabba Sutta","type":"page"}