Taking Pleasure (Interior)

Paṭhamābhinandasutta

Taking Pleasure (Interior)

Paṭhamābhinandasutta

EN
“Mendicants, if you take pleasure in the eye, you take pleasure in suffering. If you take pleasure in suffering, you’re not free from suffering, I say. If you take pleasure in the ear … nose …
PL
“Yo, bhikkhave, cakkhuṁ abhinandati, dukkhaṁ so abhinandati. Yo dukkhaṁ abhinandati, ‘aparimutto so dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi. Yo sotaṁ …pe… yo ghānaṁ …pe…
EN
tongue … body … mind, you take pleasure in suffering.
PL
yo jivhaṁ abhinandati, dukkhaṁ so abhinandati. Yo dukkhaṁ abhinandati, ‘aparimutto so dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi. Yo kāyaṁ …pe… yo manaṁ abhinandati, dukkhaṁ so abhinandati.
EN
If you take pleasure in suffering, you’re not free from suffering, I say. If you don’t take pleasure in the eye, you don’t take pleasure in suffering. If you don’t take pleasure in suffering, you’re free from suffering, I say. If you don’t take pleasure in the ear …
PL
Yo dukkhaṁ abhinandati, ‘aparimutto so dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi. Yo ca kho, bhikkhave, cakkhuṁ nābhinandati, dukkhaṁ so nābhinandati. Yo dukkhaṁ nābhinandati, ‘parimutto so dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi. Yo sotaṁ …pe…
EN
nose … tongue … body …
PL
yo ghānaṁ …pe… yo jivhaṁ nābhinandati, dukkhaṁ so nābhinandati. Yo dukkhaṁ nābhinandati, ‘parimutto so dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi. Yo kāyaṁ …pe…
EN
mind, you don’t take pleasure in suffering. If you don’t take pleasure in suffering, you’re free from suffering, I say.”
PL
yo manaṁ nābhinandati, dukkhaṁ so nābhinandati. Yo dukkhaṁ nābhinandati, ‘aparimutto so dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi.” Sattamaṁ.

Pāli root text and English translation by Bhikkhu Sujato from SuttaCentral (https://suttacentral.net), CC0.

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