{"id":"sn36.3","title":"Giving Up","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn36.3","title":"Giving Up","units":[{"id":"sn36.3:0","sourceIds":["sn36.3:0.1","sn36.3:0.2","sn36.3:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 36.3\n1. Sagāthāvagga\nPahānasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 36.3\n1. With Verses\nGiving Up"}},{"id":"sn36.3:1","sourceIds":["sn36.3:1.1","sn36.3:1.2","sn36.3:1.3","sn36.3:1.4","sn36.3:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Tisso imā, bhikkhave, vedanā.\nKatamā tisso?\nSukhā vedanā, dukkhā vedanā, adukkhamasukhā vedanā.\nSukhāya, bhikkhave, vedanāya rāgānusayo pahātabbo, dukkhāya vedanāya paṭighānusayo pahātabbo, adukkhamasukhāya vedanāya avijjānusayo pahātabbo.\nYato kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno sukhāya vedanāya rāgānusayo pahīno hoti, dukkhāya vedanāya paṭighānusayo pahīno hoti, adukkhamasukhāya vedanāya avijjānusayo pahīno hoti, ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, ‘bhikkhu niranusayo sammaddaso acchecchi taṇhaṁ, vivattayi saṁyojanaṁ, sammā mānābhisamayā antamakāsi dukkhassā’ti.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these three feelings.\nWhat three?\nPleasant, painful, and neutral feeling.\nThe underlying tendency to greed should be given up when it comes to pleasant feeling. The underlying tendency to aversion should be given up when it comes to painful feeling. The underlying tendency to ignorance should be given up when it comes to neutral feeling.\nWhen a mendicant has given up these underlying tendencies, they’re called a mendicant without underlying tendencies, who sees rightly, has cut off craving, cast off the fetters, and by rightly comprehending conceit has made an end of suffering."}},{"id":"sn36.3:2","sourceIds":["sn36.3:2.1","sn36.3:2.2","sn36.3:2.3","sn36.3:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sukhaṁ vedayamānassa,\nvedanaṁ appajānato;\nSo rāgānusayo hoti,\nanissaraṇadassino.","en":"When you feel pleasure\nwithout understanding feeling,\nthe underlying tendency to greed is there,\nif you don’t see the escape."}},{"id":"sn36.3:3","sourceIds":["sn36.3:3.1","sn36.3:3.2","sn36.3:3.3","sn36.3:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dukkhaṁ vedayamānassa,\nvedanaṁ appajānato;\nPaṭighānusayo hoti,\nanissaraṇadassino.","en":"When you feel pain\nwithout understanding feeling,\nthe underlying tendency to aversion is there,\nif you don’t see the escape."}},{"id":"sn36.3:4","sourceIds":["sn36.3:4.1","sn36.3:4.2","sn36.3:4.3","sn36.3:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Adukkhamasukhaṁ santaṁ,\nbhūripaññena desitaṁ;\nTañcāpi abhinandati,\nneva dukkhā pamuccati.","en":"As for that peaceful, neutral feeling:\nhe of vast wisdom has taught\nthat if you relish it,\nyou’re still not released from suffering."}},{"id":"sn36.3:5","sourceIds":["sn36.3:5.1","sn36.3:5.2","sn36.3:5.3","sn36.3:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yato ca bhikkhu ātāpī,\nsampajaññaṁ na riñcati;\nTato so vedanā sabbā,\nparijānāti paṇḍito.","en":"But when a mendicant is keen,\nnot neglecting situational awareness,\nthat astute person\nunderstands all feelings."}},{"id":"sn36.3:6","sourceIds":["sn36.3:6.1","sn36.3:6.2","sn36.3:6.3","sn36.3:6.4","sn36.3:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"So vedanā pariññāya,\ndiṭṭhe dhamme anāsavo;\nKāyassa bhedā dhammaṭṭho,\nsaṅkhyaṁ nopeti vedagū”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"Completely understanding feelings,\nthey’re without defilements in this very life.\nThat knowledge master is firm in principle;\nwhen their body breaks up, they can’t be reckoned.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn36.3/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}