Should Be Seen

Daṭṭhabbasutta

Should Be Seen

Daṭṭhabbasutta

EN
“Mendicants, there are these three feelings. What three? Pleasant, painful, and neutral feeling. Pleasant feeling should be seen as suffering. Painful feeling should be seen as a dart. Neutral feeling should be seen as impermanent.
PL
“Tisso imā, bhikkhave, vedanā. Katamā tisso? Sukhā vedanā, dukkhā vedanā, adukkhamasukhā vedanā. Sukhā, bhikkhave, vedanā dukkhato daṭṭhabbā, dukkhā vedanā sallato daṭṭhabbā, adukkhamasukhā vedanā aniccato daṭṭhabbā.
EN
When a mendicant has seen these three feelings in this way, they’re called a mendicant who sees rightly, has cut off craving, cast off the fetters, and by rightly comprehending conceit has made an end of suffering. A mendicant who sees pleasure as pain,
PL
Yato kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno sukhā vedanā dukkhato diṭṭhā hoti, dukkhā vedanā sallato diṭṭhā hoti, adukkhamasukhā vedanā aniccato diṭṭhā hoti— ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, ‘bhikkhu sammaddaso acchecchi taṇhaṁ, vivattayi saṁyojanaṁ, sammā mānābhisamayā antamakāsi dukkhassā’ti. Yo sukhaṁ dukkhato adda,
EN
and suffering as a dart, and that peaceful, neutral feeling as impermanent sees rightly;
PL
dukkhamaddakkhi sallato; Adukkhamasukhaṁ santaṁ, addakkhi naṁ aniccato. Sa ve sammaddaso bhikkhu,
EN
they completely understand feelings. Completely understanding feelings, they’re without defilements in this very life. That knowledge master is firm in principle;
PL
parijānāti vedanā; So vedanā pariññāya, diṭṭhe dhamme anāsavo; Kāyassa bhedā dhammaṭṭho,
EN
when their body breaks up, they can’t be reckoned.”
PL
saṅkhyaṁ nopeti vedagū”ti. Pañcamaṁ.

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

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