Linked Discourses 36.2

1. With Verses

Pleasure

“Mendicants, there are these three feelings.

What three?

Pleasant, painful, and neutral feeling.

These are the three feelings.

Whatever is felt

internally and externally—

whether pleasure or pain

as well as what’s neutral—

having known this as suffering,

deceptive, breaking apart,

one sees them vanish as they’re experienced again and again:

that’s how to be free of desire for them.”