SN 36.1 Samadhi Sutta

Samadhi Sutta: Concentration

translated from the Pali by

Nyanaponika Thera

"There are, O monks, these three feelings: pleasant feelings, painful feelings, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings."

A disciple of the Buddha, mindful, clearly comprehending, with his mind collected, he knows the feelings[1] and their origin,[2] knows whereby they cease[3] and knows the path that to the ending of feelings lead.[4] And when the end of feelings he has reached, such a monk, his thirsting quenched, attains Nibbana."[5]

Notes

1. Comy.: He knows the feelings by way of the Truth of Suffering.

2. Comy.: He knows them by way of the Truth of the Origin of Suffering.

3. Comy.: He knows, by way of the Truth of Cessation, that feelings cease in Nibbana.

4. Comy.: He knows the feelings by way of the Truth of the Path leading to the Cessation of Suffering.

5. Parinibbuto, "fully extinguished"; Comy.: through the full extinction of the defilements (kilesa-parinibbanaya).