iti53:0.1So It Was Said 53
iti53:0.2The Book of the Threes
iti53:0.3Chapter One
iti53:0.4Feelings (2nd)
iti53:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti53:2.1“Mendicants, there are these three feelings.
iti53:2.2What three?
iti53:2.3Pleasant, painful, and neutral feeling.
iti53:2.4Pleasant feeling should be seen as suffering.
iti53:2.5Painful feeling should be seen as a dart.
iti53:2.6Neutral feeling should be seen as impermanent.
iti53:2.7When a mendicant has seen these three feelings in this way,
iti53:2.8they’re called a noble mendicant who sees rightly, has cut off craving, cast off the fetters, and by rightly comprehending conceit has made an end of suffering.”
iti53:2.9The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti53:2.10On this it is said:
iti53:3.1“A mendicant who sees pleasure as pain,
iti53:3.2and suffering as a dart,
iti53:3.3and that peaceful, neutral feeling
iti53:3.4as impermanent
iti53:4.1sees rightly.
iti53:4.2And when freed in regards to that,
iti53:4.3that peaceful sage, with perfect insight,
iti53:4.4has truly slipped their yokes.”
iti53:5.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.