Linked Discourses 48.32

1. The Pleasure Faculty

A Stream-Enterer

“Mendicants, there are these five faculties.

What five?

The faculties of pleasure, pain, happiness, sadness, and equanimity.

A noble disciple comes to truly understand these five faculties’ origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape.

Such a noble disciple is called a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening.”