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- Samyutta Nikaya XXXVI.10
- Phassamulaka Sutta
- Rooted in Sense-impression
- Translated from the Pali by Nyanaponika Thera
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- From Contemplation of Feeling: The Discourse-grouping on the Feelings (WH 303),
translated from the Pali by Nyanaponika Thera (Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1983).
"There are, O monks, these three feelings, rooted in sense-impression, caused by
sense-impression, conditioned by sense-impression: pleasant, painful and neutral feelings.
"Dependent on a sense-impression that is liable to be felt as pleasurable, there
arises a pleasant feeling. When that very sense-impression liable to be felt as
pleasurable has ceased, then the sensation born from it[1] --
namely the pleasant feeling that arose dependent on that sense-impression -- also ceases
and is stilled.
"Dependent on a sense-impression that is liable to be felt as painful (neutral),
there arises a painful (neutral) feeling. When that very sense-impression liable to be
felt as painful (neutral) has ceased, then the sensation born from it -- namely the
painful (neutral) feeling that arose dependent on that sense-impression -- also ceases and
is stilled.
"Just as from the coming together and rubbing of two sticks of wood heat results
and fire is produced, and by the separation and disconnection of the sticks, the heat
produced by them ceases and disappears, so it is also with these three feelings which are
born of sense-impression, rooted in sense-impression, caused by sense-impression,
dependent on sense-impression: dependent on a sense-impression of a certain kind there
arises a corresponding feeling; by the cessation of that sense-impression the
corresponding feeling ceases."
Note
1. Tajjam vedayitam. [Go back]