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Saį¹yutta NikÄya 36.1 Linked Discourses 36.1
1. SagÄthÄvagga 1. With Verses
SamÄdhisutta Immersion
āTisso imÄ, bhikkhave, vedanÄ. āMendicants, there are these three feelings. āFeelingā (vedanÄ) is the affective or hedonic tone of experience. Each sense can trigger a response of pleasure, pain, or neither-pleasure-nor-pain. It is from the root vid (āknowā), and is close in meaning to āexperienceā. For history, see note at SN 12.1:2.8.
KatamÄ tisso? What three?
SukhÄ vedanÄ, dukkhÄ vedanÄ, adukkhamasukhÄ vedanÄāPleasant, painful, and neutral feeling.
imÄ kho, bhikkhave, tisso vedanÄti. These are the three feelings.
SamÄhito sampajÄno, Stilled, aware, The text is not explicit as to who speaks these verses. Nor, for that matter, does it say who spoke the prose; the context is elided, presumably because the editors thought it was obvious that it is the Buddha speaking. The same is true of the verses. Indeed, Iti 52 is otherwise identical to this discourse, except it indicates that the Buddha spoke both verse and prose. Whether the verses were added later is a separate matter, but clearly the text presents them as the Buddhaās words.
sato buddhassa sÄvako; a mindful disciple of the Buddha
VedanÄ ca pajÄnÄti, understands feelings,
vedanÄnaƱca sambhavaį¹. the cause of feelings,
Yattha cetÄ nirujjhanti, where they cease,
maggaƱca khayagÄminaį¹; and the path that leads to their ending.
VedanÄnaį¹ khayÄ bhikkhu, With the ending of feelings, a mendicant
nicchÄto parinibbutoāti. is hungerless, quenched.ā By treating the feelings according to the four noble truths, the Buddha is implicitly situating all feelings as suffering.
Paį¹hamaį¹.